BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Falcons. 499 



ounces : It varies very much in colour, fome having the body of a chocolate or dark brown tinged 

 rufty, and the crown of the head clay coloured; in fome the body is brownifh rufty, with the crown 

 and <:hin yellowiih ; and in a few the whole plumage is rufty brown without fpot or variegation. The 

 legs are long, flender, and yellow; the cere is either black or greenifh; the eggs are whitifh with 

 brownifh fpots, fometimes entirely brown. 



94 12. Sclavonian Buzzard. — Falco fclavon'icus. 



The cere is yellow; the legs and feet, except the toes, are downy ; the body is of a 

 brick dull red colour, with black fpots; the head and neck verging towards whitifli. 

 Lath. ind. orn. i. 26. n. 54. Kram. el. 329. n. 10. It. pofeg. 29. 



Inhabits Sclavonia and Croatia. — Is about the fize of a common Gock : The bill is of a bluifh 

 black colour, having a yellow cere; the head, neck, and breaft are of an ochreous, or dirty yellowifh, 

 white, with longitudinal black ftreaks or fpots ; the belly, efpecialiy its flanks, are black, fometimes 

 only fpotted with black; the wing quills are blackifh, the primaries being broad at the origin of their 

 webs, and growing narrow at the extremities; the fecondaries are brown with black bands; the win<* 

 coverts are variegated with dull red and black fpots ; the tail is white on its farther half, growing 

 brown at the end, and edged with dull red, fome individuals having five blackifh bands ; the rump 

 and ventlet are whitifh, with a few brown and dull red fpots ; the legs are clothed with dull red plu- 

 mage, which is irregularly ftreaked and fpotted with black ; the feet are yellow, and the irides are 

 blackifh. After giving this minute defcription, Mr Latham exprefTes a doubt that this bird may on- 

 ly be a variety of the Moor Buzzard. 



Cj^ 13. Croatian Buzzard. — Falco marginatus. 



The cere is bluifh ; the upper part of the body is variegated with brown and rufty, the 

 lower parts being rufty with irregularly oval brown fpots ; the tail quills are barred 

 with blackifh, and edged on each fide with white. Lath. ind. orn. i. 26. n. 55. It. pofe- 

 gan. 28. 



Inhabits Sclavonia and Croatia. — Is about the fize of a common Hen ; the plumage on the head 

 and back is brown, the feathers being edged with ruft colour ; the whole under part of the body is 

 rufty, with longitudinally difpofed brown fpots of a fomewhat oval fliape, each of the feathers being" 

 ruft coloured, having the fhank and a fmall part of the web on each fide brown ; the whole quill 

 feathers of the wings are brown, with feveral bands of a darker tint, and rufty white at the tips ; the 

 upper fide of the tail is brown, the quill feathers having each four broad bars of blackifh brown, and 

 edged on each fide with white ; the tip of the tail is white; its under fide is whitifh, with bands of z. 

 clearer white ; the legs and feet are yellow. 



«6 14. Rudy Buzzard. — Falco rubig'inofus. 



Of a brown colour on the upper parts ; the under parts are whitifh yellow, having a 

 yellow fpot on the bread ; the tail quills have each four dull red bars. Lath. ind. 

 orn. i. 27. n. 56. It. pofegan. 29. 



Inhabits 



