^38 MOOR BUZZARD. Class JlJ 



TION. 



Descrip- fts usual weight* is twenty ounces : the length 

 twenty-one inches; tlie breadth four feet three 

 inches. The bill is black ; cere yellow ; irides of 

 the same color: the whole bird, head excepted, 

 is of a chocolate brown, tinged with rust color : 

 on the head is a large yellowish spot. We have 

 seen some birds of this kind with their head 

 and chin entirely white ; others again have a 

 whitish spot on the coverts of the wings ; but 

 these are only to be deemed varieties. The 

 uniform color of its plumage, and the great 

 length and slenderness of its legs, distinguish it 

 from all other hawks. 



* A pair of this species were brought at the same time to the 

 reverend Hugh Davies : the male weighed only sixteen ounces 

 and a half, th<i female thirty-six ounces- Eo. 





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