LONG-LEGGED BUZZARD. 
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Rap aces — Diurn^e. 
FALCONID^E. 
lus — Buteo. fCuvier.J 
Generic Characters. — Beak small, and curved suddenly at the base; tarsi 
short; thighs clothed. Wings of medium length, the four first quill feathers 
hollowed out; the first very short, the second and third shorter than the 
fourth, which is the longest. — Temminck. 
LONG-LEGGED BUZZAKD, 
Buteo ferox. 
Gmelin. 
RrfpPELL. Bree, first ed. 
Kaup. Gray. Hodgson. 
Blyth. C. Bonaparte. 
Hodgson; Bengal Sporting Journal, 1836. 
Naumann. 
Jerdon; Madras Journal, 1839. 
Jerdon; Madras Journal, 1841. 
Latham. 
Buteo ferox, 
Falco rufinus, 
Buteo rufitius, 
canes cens, 
leucurus, 
longipes, 
rufiventer, 
The Nasal Falcon, 
Chuha-mar, "Rat-killer,'' 1 Hindustani. 
Specific Characters. — Rufous above, dirty white below.. Tarsi feathered on 
their upper third. Eight transverse bands on the tail. 
Measurement. — Length of adult male in Norwich Museum twenty-two 
inches. Length of tarsi three inches. 
I introduced this bird with, doubt in my first edition on the 
authority of Mr. Gurney, who had received skins from the Volga, 
where it now turns out to breed regularly. I have a large series of 
eggs taken in South Russia. 
"It is," says Von Heuglin, "a winter visitor along the Nile and 
southwards to the Arrek, and the lowlands of Abyssinia. It conies 
