Distin- 
guishing 
trait. 
Rare visi- 
tant. 
Dp RAPACES. FALCO. Buzzanrps. 
Honey Buzzard.—-Falco apivorus, Linn. 
PLATE 8. 
Falco apivorus, Linn. Syst. 1. sp. 130.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 267. sp. 28.— 
Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. 25. 52.—Briss. 1. p. 410.—Id. 8vo, p. 117.—Raii, 
Syn. 16. 2.—Muller, No. 68. 
Falco Poliorinchos, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 19. 
Buse Bondrée, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 1. p. 67. 2d ed. 
La Bondrée, Buff: Ois. 1. p. 208.—Id. Pl. Enl. 420. a yearling bird. 
Wespen Busard, Meyer, 'Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 39.—Jd. Vog. Liv. und 
Esthl. p. 12. 
Honey Buzzard, Br. Zool. 1. No. 56.—Zd. fol. 67. t. A. 4. and A. + 4.— 
Arct. Zool. 2. p. 224. T.— Wil. (Ang.) p. 72.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, i. t. 1. 
—Lath. Syn. 1. p. 52.—Sup. p. 14.—Albin. 1. t. 2.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. 
and Suppl.—Puwit. Cat. Dorset.—Walc. Syn. i. t. 7.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 
1. 17.—White’s Hist. Selb. 1. t. 7.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 7. p. 114. 
Provincial, Capped Buzzard. 
This rare and elegant species is easily to be distinguished 
from all its congeners, by the small, round, and closely set 
feathers that cover the space between the bill and eyes, which 
space in the other species is either naked, or but thinly co- 
vered with bristles or hairs. This peculiarity has induced 
Cuvier to separate the Honey Buzzard from the section in 
which it is here placed, and to form of it and a few other fo- 
reign species, possessing the same character, his genus or divi- 
sion Pernis. 
The instances of this bird being killed in England are but 
few. Latuam says, that durmg such a number of years as 
he has been a collector; he has received but one fresh speci- 
men. I have never met with it in a living state, nor been 
able to obtain it newly killed; and I am indebted for the fi- 
gure in the present work to the polite attention of Witi1am 
Vicors, Esq. who kindly lent me, for that purpose, the very 
fine specimen he possesses. 
Monracu describes one, taken at High Clere in Berk- 
shire (and now in the British Museum), that had the breast 
and belly of a light brown, barred with reddish-brown, which, 
according to that accurate ornithologist ‘TrmMtncx, is cha- 
racteristic of the female, or a young bird. 
