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BUZZARET. 
DeEscRIPTION. 
PLack 
28. 
PONDICHERRY 
E. 
PLacs. 
Degscriprion. 
Hog Ah Ei Ga Onan. 
Le Buferay, Lewvaill. Oif-i. p. 84- pl. 20. 
Bufard Buferai, Daudix. Orn. ii. p. 168. cxli. 
IZE of the Marfh Buzzard: the bill black ; cere lead colour : 
the head and neck rufous white, mixed with brown, the laft 
deepeft on the back part of the neck: the back and wings are rufous 
brown, or chefnut, more or Jefs {potted or ftreaked acrofs with dufky 
blaelk: the tail barred with the fame, but the bafe of it inclines to 
rufous yellow, towards the end dufky; the wings when clofed reach 
to the end of it: the belly and thighs are light rufous, marked 
with tranfverfe bands of black brown: quills black 4 
Inhabits Cayeyne, and is fuppofed to be the fame bird which M. 
Mauduit mentions in the Eneyclopedie Methodique, by the name of 
Bufard Roux de Cayenne. | 
F. ponticerianus, Ind. Orz. i. p..23. 46. 
Qifeau Brame, Ef Philof. p. 55. 
Aigle de Pondichéry, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 55. XXiil. 
Pondicherry Eagle, Gen, Syz.1. p. 41. 
HIS is not unfrequent on the coaft of Malabar and Coromandel, 
where it is called Tchil and Kuereuden, but not of fo generous 
_anature as to be trained for falconry. The figure of the Garroora, 
is a bird, which is frequently found in the temples of the God Vi/bnou, 
immediately in front of his image, and fometimes fitting on a ferpent 
with feveral heads: this is a large brown kite, with a white head : 
the Brachmans at fome of the temples of /i/bnou, accuftom birds of 
this fpecies to come at ftated times to be fed, and call them to their 
meals by ftriking a brafs plate *. 
A bird feemingly of this laft kind is found in New Holland, j in 
& Sketches of the Hindoos, 8v0. 1790, ; 
as which 
