So FALCON. 



greater quills very dark cream-colour, verging to brown; the fhafo. 

 very pale : the belly and fides are dafhed with perpendicular 

 blotches of brown, but irregularly : the thighs are of a pale 

 buff white, with -narrow bars of pale brown: between the legs 

 and the vent the fame, but without bars : tail rather fhorter 

 than in the common Buzzard; of the fame colour with the back; 

 at firft fight appearing of a plain colour, but on clofe infpection 

 feveral narrow bars of a fomewhat darker colour may be per- 

 ceived :. the legs are fhort,, flout,, and of a yellow colour : 

 claws black. 



This beautiful fpecimen was fent to me from Jamaica by an: 

 intelligent friend, and a good naturalifr, who did not hint the 

 leaft of it's being a variety of the common Buzzard, which I 

 fhould otherwife have fufpefted; but remarked that it was fcarce: 

 in that ifland.. 



Place. 



Lev. Muf. 



3» 



AMERICAN 



B. CIZE of our Buzzard, or, if any thing, rather bigger. The: 



bill is black : cere pale yellow : on the upper parts the co- 

 lour is brown : the feathers on the back have pale edges : t he- 

 chin is white, lightly dafhed with brown: fore part of the neck 

 and breaft are of a paler brown than the back, and a trifle mot- 

 tled : the belly is whke ; each feather- has the fhaft brown, 

 which fpreads out into a lozenge-fhaped mark as it advances to 

 the tip, not unlike a fpear with the head downwards :- the vent 7 

 is plain white v the quills are dufky : tail of a plain ferruginous 



colour,, 



