Buzzarps. RAPACES. FALCO. 21 
Their flight was smooth, but slow, and not unlike that of the 
Common Buzzard, and they seldom continued for any length 
of time on the wing. They preyed upon wild ducks, and other yo 54, 
birds, which they mostly pounced upon the ground; and it Flight. 
would appear that mice and frogs must have constituted a 
great part of their food, as the remains of both were found 
in the stomachs of those that were killed. 
Since the above-mentioned year, they have not been again 
seen in that neighbourhood. 
It is a native of Norway, and other northern countries of Foreign lo- 
E here it fi ts marshy districts nek 
urope, where it frequents marshy districts, preying upon 
leverets, hamsters, water-rats, moles, and frequently lizards 
and frogs. According to 'TEmMMINCcK, it builds in lofty trees, Nest, &e. 
and lays four white eggs, spotted with reddish-brown, 
The figure at PLatx 7. represents a female bird, of the na- 
tural size, killed in the winter of 1815, and now in my 
possession. 
Bill bluish-black, darkest towards the tip. Cere and iride sGeneraj 
gamboge-yellow. Head, neck, and throat yellowish- Cees 
white, inclining to cream-yellow, with slender streaks of 
umber-brown. 
Breast yellowish-white, with large spots of umber-brown. 
Lower part of the belly umber-brown. Thighs cream- 
yellow, with arrow-shaped brown spots; the feathers 
very long. 'Tarsi covered with feathers, colour cream- 
yellow, with a few brown specks. Toes saffron-yellow. 
Back and wing coverts umber-brown, the edges of the fea- 
thers paler. Lower part of the inner webs of the greater 
quill feathers white. Upper tail coverts and base of 
the tail white, the remaining part brown, banded with a 
darker shade of the same colour. 
