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ORD. I. GEN. I. FALCON. 



SPE. VIII. MOOR BUZZARD. 



PI. 8. 



Falco iEruginofus. Un. Syji. I. p. 130. 

 Le Buzard de Marais. BriJ. Orn. I. p. 401. 



This Is a flender made bird ; in length twenty-one inches : weight of a male 

 twenty ounces ; of the female, fometimes as far as twenty-fcven. The bill is 

 black: cere and eyes yellow: general colour of the plumage, a chocolate 

 brown : the head, in old males, is of a yellowifh buff colour ; which, in fome, 

 extends likewifc to the tips of the Ihoulders, and various parts of the neck. The 

 females and young birds are of a rufty chocolate brown colour : the legs are 

 very long, flender, and yellow. 



This fpecies is common to moors, and marfliy places, and likewife heaths. 

 Thefe birds do not foar like other hawks ; but will fit for hours on a rail or 

 poll, to watch their prey, which confifts of fmall quadrupeds, as young rabbits 

 and water rats ; and of water fowl. They are alfo faid to feed fometimes on 

 fifh. They make their nefts in a low bu(h, as well as in tufts of high grafs, or 

 rulhes, and lay two or three eggs. 



For the egg, fee PI. III. Fig. i. 



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