FALCON. 53 



I mention the above, to fbew how much thefe birds differ;. 

 This fpecies, I believe, is not fo common in England as the 

 other Buzzards ; at leaft, with all my attention, I never procured 

 but one frefh fpecimen, from whence the above defcription was 

 taken. 



Willughby fays that it feeds on W a fp -Maggots, as well as on Frogs 

 and Lizards; perhaps on thcLarva of Bees alfo, whence the name.. 



Falco aeruginofus, Lin. fyft. p. 130. N 6 29, 34: 



Le Bufard de marais, Brif. ern. i. p. 401. N° 29, '*" MOOR 



Le Bufard, Buf. oif. i. p. 218, t. 10. 



PI. enl. 423? 424. 



Schwartz-braune fifch-geyer, Frifch. t, 77. 

 Milvus asruginofus, Rait fyn. p. 17. N° A. 4, 

 More Buzzard, Will. orn. p. 75, t. 7. 

 Moor Buzzard, Br. Zool. i. N° 57, t. 27.. 

 Lev. Muf. 



THE length of this bird is twenty-one inches: weight twenty Description. 



ounces.. The bill is black r cere and irides yellow : colour 

 of the whole bird a chocolate brown, with a tinge of ferruginous: 

 the legs are long and (lender. According to Linnaus, the 

 throat, crown of the head, fhoulders, and legs, are luteous. 



Mr. Pennant obferves, that the luteous marks which Linnaeus 

 gives as charafteriftics of the fpecies, are by no means fo, 

 being varieties only of the common one, which is wholly of a-, 

 ruity chocolate brown, with a yellowifh fporon the head. 



Even this is by no means always the cafe, fince I have now. 

 by me a fpecimen, which is. chocolate brown throughout, with- 

 out; 



