49 5 BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Falcons. 



83 2. Indian Hawk.— 46. Falco indicus. 68. 



The cere and legs are yellow ; the forehead and rump are white ; the body is rufty 

 above, and rufty brown ftreaked with whitifh on the belly j the tail is brown, with 

 five black bands. 

 F, indicus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 23. n. 45. — Javan Hawk. Lath. fyn. i. 34. . * n. 7. d. 



Inhabits Java. — Is about the fame fize with the preceding : The bill is yellow at the bafe, and 

 black at the tip ; the lower coverts of the wings are dirty reddifh white, waved with ruft colour; the 

 wing quill feathers are tranfverfely ftreaked and tipt with black ; the coverts of the tail are dotted, 

 with white ; the chin, throat, and breaft are reddifh brown ; the claws are black. Mr Latham adds 

 to this defcription, that the under fides of the wings are whitifh waved with rufty, and that the nape; 

 of the neck is whitifh. 



84 3. Common Buzzard. — 51. Falco Buteo. 15. 



The cere and legs are yellow ; the body is brown, the belly being whitifh, with large.- 

 brown fpots. Scop. an. i. 15. n. 4. 



F. Buteo. Lath. ind. orn. i. 23. n. 47. — Buteo. BrhT. orn. 116. n. 32. — Buteo vulgaris. Gefn,. 

 av. 46. Aldr. orn. i. 369. f. p. 370. Raj. av. 16. a. i. Will. orn. 38. t. 6. 1. — Bufe. Buff. oif. i. 206,. 

 t. 8. PI. enl. 419. — Maafe Geyer. Gunth. neft. t. 50. ? — Quidfogel. Faun. fuec. n. 60. — Pojana 

 fecunda. Zinnan. 85. t. 1,4. f, 56. — Buzzard. Brit. zool. i. 188. n. 54. t. 25. Arc~t. zool. ii. 207^ 

 n. i03.^Common Buzzard. Will. orn. ang. 70. Alb. av. i. t,,i. Lath.. fyn. i. 48. n. 28. fup., 

 14. 



Inhabits Europe. — Is twenty inches long, and apt to vary in its colours from difference of age and 

 fex ; but in general the tail quill feathers are brown with darker bands, the bill is leaden coloured, 

 the irides dufky, and the claws black ; the eggs are moftly of a bluifh white, with rufty brown fpots, 

 but are fometimes entirely whitifh. This animal lives on birds, reptiles, fmall quadrupeds, and in-- 

 lefts. 



85 4. Greater Buzzard. — 52. Falco gallinarius. 73. 



The cere and legs are yellow ; the body is brown above, and reddifh on the under partsj. 

 with oval brown fpots ; the tail is barred with brown. 



F. Buteo major. Lath. ind. orn. i. 24. n. 47. y. — Circus major, Gros Buzard. Briff. orn. 114., 

 n. 28. — Hunnerhabicht, Hunergeyer. Frifch. av. t. 72. — Greater Buzzard. Lath. fyn. 1. 4£. 



$6 jS. Spotted Buzzard. — 52. /3. F. gallinarius nacvius* 



Refembles the former, but the wings are more variegated. 



F. Buteo varius. Lath. ind. orn. i. 24. n. 47. I. — Circus varius. Briff. orn. 1 16.— Accipiter ftel- 

 larius. Frifch. av. t. 73. — Spotted Buzzard. Lath. fyn. i. 49. 



Inhabits Europe. — Both of thefe are confidered as varieties of the Common Buzzard by Mr La- 

 tham ; they meafure from twenty to twenty-three inches long ; the bill and claws in both are black, 

 and the irides of an orange colour* 



