82 FALCONIDA. 
RAPTORES. FALCONID. 
THE COMMON BUZZARD. 
Buteo vulgaris. 
Falco buteo, The Buzzard, Pewn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 232. 
Pes i Common Buzzard, Montacu, Ornith. Dict. 
see Uae The Buzzard, Berwick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 22. 
Buteo vulgaris, Common Buzzard, ¥ xem. Brit. An. p. 54. 
a Be as SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 55. 
te f 5 Jznyns, Brit. Vert. p. 87. 
Ps c “5 GouLp, Birds of Europe, pt. ix. 
Falco buteo, La Buse, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 63. 
Burro. Generic Characters.—Bill rather small and weak, bending from the 
base, part of the cutting edge of the upper mandible slightly projecting ; cere 
large ; nostrils oval. Wings ample ; the first quill-feather short, about equal 
in length to the seventh, the fourth the longest ; the first four feathers with the 
inner webs deeply notched. Tarsi short, strong, scaled or feathered. Toes 
short ; claws strong. 
