FALCON. 



49 



Le Gros Bufard, Brif. cm. i. p. 398. N° 28. 

 Huner-habigt ; Huner-Geyer. Frifcb. t. 72. 



GIZE of our Buzzard : length one foot eleven inches. The bill 

 is black : the cere yellow : irides faffron-colour : above the 

 feathers are brown, with rufous edges; beneath rufous, with oval 

 brown fpots ; in fome unfpotted : under tail-coverts plain ru- 

 fous : tail brown, with broad -bars of deeper brown: legs yel- 

 low : claws black. 



GREATER 

 BUZZARD. 



Description, 



Le Bufard varie, Brif. orn. i. p. 400. N° 28. A. 



A TRIFLE lefs than the preceding, being in length only one 

 foot eight inches. It differs from it in having the wings 



D DO 



more variegated ; the upper wing-coverts being fpotted with 

 alb-colour ; the leffer quills, from the middle to near the end, 

 are white ; the end itfelf blackifh : on each of thefe feathers 

 is a blackifh fpot on the outer webs, which, when the wing is 

 clofed, form a tranfverfe blackifh band. 



This is a variety only of the laft-mentioned. 



29. 



Var. A. 

 SPOTTED 

 B 

 Description. 



C I Z E of a Buzzard : length twenty inches. Bill black : cere 

 yellow : iris the fame : general colour a dark cream, or 

 brownifh buff; paleft on the under parts : crown of the head 

 plain : the feathers on the back have the middle and the fhafts 

 brown : greater wing- coverts obfcurely barred with brown : 



H 



greater 



3°- 

 +. CREAM*. 



COLOURED 



B. 



N. S. 



Description. 



