ClafsIL HONEY BUZZARD. 145 



Xlir. The Honey BUZZARD. 



Le Golran, on Eondree. Behn Slag-hok. Faun. Suec. /p. 6^. 



a'v. lol. La Bondrec. Brijjhn a'v. i. 410. 



Ald.a'v. I. IQT. Zinan. 84. 



Honey-Buzzard. IVil. orn. 72. Br. Zool. 67. Tab. A. 4. 



Raiijyn. a'v. 16. A *. 4. 



Frofch-geyerl. ^raw. 331. Mufe-Hoeg, Mufe-Baage, ^/-aa- 



Falco Apivorus. Lin, Jyji. i^Q. nich ^. ^, 



THE weight of this fpecies is thirty ounces : the 

 length twenty-three inches : the breadth fifty- 

 two : the bill and cere are black ; the latter much I^^^^r. 

 wrinkled : the irides of a line yellow : the crown of 

 the head afh-colored : the neck, back, fcapulars, and 

 covert feathers of the wings, are of a deep brown : 

 the chin is white ; the bread and belly of the fame 

 color, marked with dufky fpots pointing downwards. 

 The tail is long, of a dull brown color, marked witli 

 three broad dufky bars ; between each of which are 

 two or three of the fame color, but narrower: the 

 legs are fhort, ftrong, and thick : the claws large and 

 black. 



After the publication of the Zoology., Mr. Plymly 

 favored us with a variety of this fpecies, engraved in 

 the additional plates of the Zoology., fuppofed to be a 

 feniale, being fhot on the neft : it was entirely of a 

 deep brown color, but had much the fame marks on 

 the wings and tail as the male % and the head was tinged 

 with a(h color. There were two eggs in the nefb, 

 blotched over with two reds fomething darker than 

 thofe of the keftril ; though Mr. Willcughly fays they 

 are of a different color: that naturalift informs us, 

 |;hat this bird builds its neft with fmali twigs, which 



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