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F. apivorus, Zid. Orn. i. p, 25. 52. 
Honey-Buzzard, Gen. Syz.i. p. 52 ——Jd. Sup. p. 14. 
HIS is found in open countries, in Ruffe and Siliria, where 
woods are near, and plenty cf fmall Lizards, which are com- 
monly met with in its gizzard on diffection; not only fo, but likewife 
Caterpillars, both fiooth and hairy: builds a large fhallow neft of twigs, 
lined with dead leaves, upon a tall flender beech, as obferved by. Mr. 
White*. The egg was {maller than that of the Common Buzzard, 
lefs round, dotted at each end with fmall red {pots, and furrounded 
in. the middle with a broad bloody zone. 
Le Grenouillard, Lewaill. O:/-i. p. gg. pl. 23. 
Bufard Grenouvillard, Daudin. Orz. ii, p. 170. cxliv. 
T firft fight it feems moft like the Moor Buzzard, being much 
of the fame fize and ftature, but differs in colour, for the upper 
part of the body is pale umber colour: the cheeks and throat are 
covered with whitifh tender feathers, each marked with a longitudinal 
brown band : the under part of the body light brown, flightly mixed 
- with white on the breaft and lower belly: on the upper part of the 
breaft, and leffer wing coverts, a few white fpots': thighs and 
under tail coverts ruft. colour: wings brown; tail, the fame, even 
at the end, but croffed with bars of deeper brown: the wings when 
clofed reach two-thirds on the tail: irides grey brown: legs flender, 
yellow. 
Inhabits chiefly the marfhy parts of the Cape of Good Hope, where 
it preys on frogs, whence the name of Kzkvors-vanger, or froe-catcher, 
but it alfo preys on young water-fowl. 
It makes the neft among the reeds, with ftalks and leaves of 
aquatic plants, and lays three or four eggs, which are quite white. 
* Hip. Selb. p. 107. 
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