68 CLASS AVES. 



Quoys Buzzard, F. Historionicus, Quoy and 

 Gaimard, Frey. Voy. t. 15, 16. 



Above gi*ay; beneath white, cross-barred with brown ; 

 cere and feet yellow. Malouine Islands. 



Naked-cheeked Buzzard. F. gymnogenys, Temm. 

 pi. col. t. 307; Son. Ind. t. 103. 



Upper part and neck bluish gray ; back and beneath 

 finely banded black and white ; wing coverts black 

 spotted ; quills and tail black, white tipt ; tail with a 

 Avhite band. Madagascar. 21 to 25 inches. 



Black and White Indian Falcon, Lath. F. melano- 

 leucus. Lath. Indian. Zool. t. 5i ; Le Tchong, 

 Vaill. O. A. t. 32 ; Sonnerat. ix. t. 182. 



White ; head, neck, back, axillae, and quills black ; 

 feet yellow. India. Length sixteen inches. 



The Circus axillaris of New Holland ; C. leucoce- 

 phalus and C. rufulus, C. albicollis, C. malanopterus, 

 and cinereus, all from Paraguay, named by Vieillot, 

 from Azzara, descriptions, and C. variegatus of South 

 America ; perhaps, belong here. 



The Snake-eater, or Secretary (Serpentarius, Cuv. 

 Gypogeranus, 111. ; Gypogeranida, Vigors ; Ophiotheres, 

 Vieillot) ; 



Is a bird of prey of Africa, which has the tarsi at 

 least as long again as the last, which caused it to be 

 located by many naturalists with the grallse ; but 

 these legs, entirely covered with feathers, the beak 

 bent and cleft, the prominent eyelids, and all the 

 details of its anatomy, place it in the present order. 



