F A 1. C O tt. 61 



is called Snake-hawk ; though it lives chiefly on infe&s, which 

 it is faid to pick from the tree while flying. 



M. de Buffon fays that this bird more properly is a native of 

 JBeru, as it retires there on the leaft approach of cold weather. 



f Falco milvus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 126. N° 12. . grxE. 



Le Milan royal, Brif. orn. i. p. 414. N° 35. t. 33. 



Buf. oif. i. p. 197. t. 7.— PI. ml. 422. 



Milvus, RaiiSjfi.p. 17. N°A.6. 

 Kite, or Glead, Will. orn. p. 74. t. 6. 

 Kite, Br. Zool. N° 53. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



fTP H E length of this fpecies is two feet. It has a brownifh Description. 



bill : the cere is yellow: and the irides of a fbraw-colour:. the 

 feathers on the head and neck are long and narrow, of a hoary- 

 colour, with a dafh of brown down the middle : the body is fer- 

 ruginous : the middle of each feather above is dark, and the mar- 

 gins pale ; beneath likewife the feathers have a ftreak down the 

 ihafts : quills blackifh : the tail is twelve inches in length, and 

 forked i by which the bird is at once diftinguifhed from all 

 others : legs yellow : claws black. 



This bird is very common in England, where it continues the Place anb 

 whole, year : it lays two or three eggs, which are roundifh, and 

 of a whitifh colour, fpotted with dirty yellow. It is not peculiar 

 to England. Linn<su$ mentions it as a bird of Sweden ; and, ac- 

 cording to voyagers, is found as far as Guinea * and Senegal 'f 3 , 



• Bo/man Voy. de Guinee, p. 278. 



f Hift. des Voy. Prtvojt, vol. iii. p. 306. 



though 



