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Grey -cheeked Buzzard, F. Poliogenys, Temm. pi. 

 col. t. 325. 



Cheeks gray ; throat white, with a longitudinal ashy 

 band ; above reddish brown ; quills inner edge white, 

 tips black .■; tail with four black bands ; chest brown ; 

 belly and thighs white, with broad brown bands. 

 ■ Isle of Le9on. Length seventeen inches. 



F. polyosoma, Quoy and Gaim. 

 t. 14. 

 Cera and feet yellow ; tail whitish, cross-lined with 

 brown ; tips black-edged ; wings long. Malouin 

 Islands. 



F. desertorum, Vieil. O. Amer. Sept. t. 17, is most 

 likely a variety of one of the other American species ; 

 as is also Buteo Americanus, t. 6. 



The Buzzards, Busards of Cuvier, (Circus, Bechstein.) 



Differ from the last by having the tarsi more elevated, 

 and by a sort of collar which the tips of the feathers 

 covering the ears form on each side of the neck. 



There are but two species in France which, by the 

 variations in their plumage, have been multiplied by 

 nomenclators. 



The Buzzard^ (F. pygargus,) Enl. 443 and 480. 



Brown ; above white, spotted with brown underneath, 

 and the rump white. L'Oiseaii de Saint-Martin, or Hen 

 Harrier. (F. cyaneus and F. albicans,) Gmel. Enl. 459, 



Ashy, with the quill feathers of the wings black. 

 Appears to be no other than the old male Buzzard. 



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