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history of this rare and beautiful species. Four of the birds figured 

 were taken in this county in the month of September, 1841 (Zool. 

 180), and are consequently fresh and in good preservation. I am 

 aware that some ornithologists do not consider the white colour upon 



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the breast and belly to distinguish the adult bird, but as the specimen 

 which 1 have figured in this plumage, and which is in the Norwich 

 Museum, is marked " Adult male," I shall consider it as such, and 

 beginning with the darkest specimen, shall endeavour to trace fi-om it 

 to the former, the somewhat intricate changes in the disposition and 

 colour of its markings, to which the honey buzzard is subject. 



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