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BuzzaRD. 
DESCRIP. 
MOOR BUZZARD. Crass Il. 
Le fau-Perdrieux. Belon av. 
114. 
Circus Accipiter. 
a 
Milvus zruginofus. Ald. av. 
1.20 F< 
Moor Buzzard. Wil. orn. 75. 
Raii fyn. av. 17. 
Brauner rohr Geyer. Kram. 
328. 
-Pojana roffa. 
Gefner av. 
Hoenf-tjuf. Faun. Suec. /p. 66. 
Zinan. 83. 
Le Bufard de marais. Briffon 
av.1. 40%. Hift. d’Oys. 1. 
218. . 
Schwartz-brauner Fifch-Gey- — 
er mit dem gelben Kopf. 
Frifch. 1. 77. 
Hoenfe Hoeg. Brunnich p. 5. 
Br. Zool. £7. Tab. A. 5. 
Falco eruginofus. Liz. f/?.gi. | 
HIS fpecies frequents moors, marfhy places, 
and heaths; it never foars like other hawks; 
but commonly fits on the ground, or on fmall bufh- 
es: it makes its neft in the midft of a tuft of grafs 
or rufhes: we have found three young ones in it, 
but never happened to meet with the eggs: it is a 
very fierce and voracious bird, and is a great de- 
{troyer of rabbets, young wild ducks*, and other 
water fowl, It alfo preys, like the ofprey, upon 
fifh. : 
Its ufual weight is twenty ounces: the length 
twenty-one inches: the breadth four feet three inch- 
es: the bill is black; cere yellow; irides of the 
fame color: the whole bird, head excepted, is 
of a chocolate brown, tinged with ruft color: on 
the head is a large yellowifh fpot; we have feen 
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* In fome places it is called the duck hawk. 
fome. 
