5 so BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Falcons, 



Inhabits Sclavonia. — The bill is black ; the legs are yellow; the head is whitifh yellow, the cheekj 

 being rufty; the upper parts of the body are brown, the tips of the wing covert feathers being whitifh; 

 the under parts of the body are whitifh yellow, with a rufty yellow irregularly fhaped foot on the 

 .breaft ; the wing quill feathers are brown, their exterior webs being fomewhat hoary, and the inte- 

 rior having feveral white bars; the tail quill feathers are brown, with four brickduft-red bars on each. 



gj 1.5. Java Buzzard. — 61. Falco jav aniens. 80. 



The cere is black, with a yellow middle ; the legs are yellow.; the head, neck, and 

 .bread, are chefnut coloured ; the back is brown. 



F. javanicus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 27. n. 58. Wurmb, in Lichterib. magaz. iv. 2. 8. 



Inhabits the coaft of Java, and lives on fifh. — This bird is here called a Buzzard, becaufe placed, 

 both by Dr Gmelin and Mr Latham, amid thofe fpecies to which that name is given by the latter in 

 his fynopfis. 



98 -i'6. Cinereous Buzzard.— 62. Falco clnereus, 81. 



The cere and legs are bluifh; the body is of a brownifh afh colour, mixed with whitifh, 

 on the upper part ; the eye brows are white with brown fpots. 



F. Buteo cinereus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 24. n. 47. p.? — F. freti hudfonis. BrifT. orn. 103. n. 10. — . 

 Faucon de la baye d'hudfon. BufF. oif. i. 223. — Afh coloured Buzzard. Lath. fyn. i. $$. n. 35. 

 Edw. av. t. 5,3. 



Inhabits the country about Hudfori's Bay in North America. — This bird refembles the Common 

 Buzzard, but is larger, and is probably only a variety of that fpecies : It preys much on partridges. 

 The upper furface of the tail is cinereous brown, with tranfverfe grey ftripes ; the under furface is 

 cinereous, with white ftripes; the irides are yellow; over each eye is a white line,, called the eye-brow 

 jn the character for fhortnefs, which is fpotted with brown. 



99 17. "Streaked Buzzard. — 63. Falco lineatus. 82. 



The cere and legs are yellow ; the upper parts of the body are dufky brown ; the un- 

 der parts are reddifh with white and pale rufty ftreaks ; the tail quills are dufky 

 brown, with dirty white tips, and having feven dirty white tranfverfe bars. 



F. lineatus. Lath. ind. orn.i. 27. n. 59 Red-fhouldered Falcon. ArcL zool. ii. 206. n. 102. — 



Earred-breafted Buzzard. Lath. fyn. i. 56. n. 36. 



Inhabits Long Ifland in North America.— The bill is flender and dufky ; the legs are flender, with 

 black claws; the head and neck are yellowifh white, longitudinally ftreaked with duiky ; the fides of 

 the back are rufty ; the leffer coverts of the wings are rufty with, black fpots ; the wing quill fea- 

 thers are black with white fpots ; the breaft and belly are pale reddifh tawny, the former ftreaked 

 longitudinally with black, the latter tranfverfely with deep tawny. This fpecies is about twenty-two 

 inches long. 

 .100 18. Leverian Falcon. — 55. Falco leverianus. j6. 



The legs are yellow ; the head is variegated with alternate brown and white ftreaks ; 

 the body is brown above, and white below ; the wings are dark brown. 



