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Place. 



F A L C O N. 



it is wholly brown ; but has legs and claws of twice the fize of a 

 Falcon. 



This bird is found in the Antilles, or Caribbee Iflands. It's 

 food chiefly confifts of fraall birds, fnakes, and lizards. 



28. 

 (-COMMON 

 BUZZARD. 



Description. 



Falco butep, Lin. Syji i. p. 127. N° 15. 



— Scop. Ann. i. p. 15. N°4. 



La Bufe, Brif. orn. i. p. 406. N° 32. 



— Buf oif. i. p. 206. t. 8. — PL enl. 419. 



Buteo vulgaris, Raii Syn. p. 16. 



Common Buzzard, Will. orn. p. 70. — Albin. i. t. I. 



Buzzard, Br. Zool. i. p. 188. N° 54. t. 25. 



■ Am. Zool. N° 



Lev. Muf. 



T T is bigger than a Kite in the body : length one foot eight 

 inches. Bill lead-colour : cere luteous : irides dark: the body 

 is ferruginous brown above ; beneath pale, varied with brown : 

 tail above brown, barred with darker brown ; beneath greyilh, 

 and tipped with rufous white : legs luteous : claws black. 



This is the common Buzzard of all authors, and is a bird 

 known by every one. It's food is various ; eating birds, fmall 

 quadrupeds, reptiles, and infefts. It is very fubje£l to vary in 

 different fpecimens i fcarcely two being alike. 



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