ORDER ACCIPITRES. 61 



It has been almost always considered a variety of 

 some other bird. It is four times mentioned in 

 Gmelin without ever being in its place. It is the F. 

 lagopus, Brit. Zool. app. t. 1 ; F. communis and 

 leucephalus, Frisch. 75 ; the F. pemiatus, Brisson, app. 

 t. 1.; the F. Sancti Johannis, Arct. Zool. t. 9. 



Black Hawk ; F. Sancti Johannis, Gm. ; F. niger, 

 Wils. a. o. t. 53. f. 1,2 Jun. 



Black; above speckled with white ; white round the 

 eye ; tail rounded, with narrow bands of pure white, 

 and tipped with dull white. North America. 



Winking Falcon, Lath. Supp. F. connivens. 

 Lath. 



Chocolate brown ; beneath yellowish, brown spotted; 

 back of neck and axillaries white spotted ; quills 

 and tail white banded ; tarsi feathered. New Hol- 

 land. 



Black and White Buzzard. Buteo melanoleucus, 

 Vieillot, Gal. Ois. t. 14. 



Back, wings, and tail blackish brown ; head, neck, 

 beneath, and edge of secondaries white ; tail with six 

 black and pale bands. Brazils. Length eighteen 

 inches. 



But the buzzards, in general^ have the tarsi naked 

 and shielded. We have in Europe but one. 



The Common Buzzard, (F. buteo) 1. Enl. 419. 

 Brown, more or less waved with white on the belly 

 and throat. It is the most common and the most 



