5 a FALCON. 



33. Falco apivorus, Lin. fyft. i. p. 130. N° 28. 



+- HONEY L a Bondree, Brif. orn. i. p. 410. N° 33. 



— Buf. oif. i. p. 208. — PL enl. 420. 



Buteo apivorus, Raiifyn. p. 16. N° 2. 



Honey Buzzard, Will. orn. p. 72, t. 3. — Albin. i. t. 2, 



■ —1 Br. Zool. i. N° z6. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description;. 'T'HE length is twenty-three inches: weight thirty ounces. 

 Bill and cere black : irides golden yellow : head afh-co- 

 •• loured: neck, back, fcapulars, and wing-coverts, deep brown: 

 the chin nearly white, or very pale yellow, ftreaked with nar- 

 row lines of brown : fore part of the neck rufous brown : breafl 

 and belly barred with tranfverfe regular bars of rufous brown and 

 white, each feather being white, with two bars upon it : tail 

 of a dull brown colour, with a bar of darker brown near the 

 end, and another in the middle. The legs are fhort, flout, and 

 of a dull yellow : claws black. 



This defcription is from a fpecimen of my own, but whether 

 male or female I never knew. 



In the Br. Zoology, the chin, breaft, and belly are white ; the- 

 two laft marked with dufky fpots, pointing downwards -, and 

 three duiky bars on the tail. 



Linnaeus remarks, that the tail has only one cinereous band A . 

 and the tip is white. 



Brijfon obferves, that the fide tail-feathers are banded with; 

 white on the inner webs, and are fpotted with brown.. 



A1bin\ fpecimen had no bars on the tail. 



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