146 MOOR BUZZARD. Clafs If. 



it covers with wool ; that its eggs are cinereous, 

 marked with darker fpcts : as he found the combs of 

 wafps in the neft, he gave this fpecies the name of the 

 honey buzzard : he adds, that it feeds on the erucse 

 of thofe infe6ls» on frogs, Hzards, ^c, and that it runs 

 very fwiftly like a hen. 



XIV. The Moor BUZZARD. 



Le fau-Perdrienx, Belcna^v. 1 14. Faico aruginofus. Lin. fyjl, 91. 



Circus Accipiter. Gefner av. 49, Hoenf-tjuf. Faun. Suec. /p. 66. 



Milvus seruginofus. ^Id. a<v. i, Pojana rolTa. Zinan. 83. 



203. Le Bufard de marais. ^n^w 

 Moor Buzzard. Wil.orn. 75. a'v. \. 4.01. 



Raiifyn. a<v. 17. Hoenfe Hoeg. Brunnicb^. ^. 



Brauner rohr Geyer. Kram. 320. Br. Zool. 67. Tab. A. 5. 



THIS fpecies frequents moors, marfhy places, 

 and heaths ; it never foars like other hawks j 

 but commonly fits on the ground, or on fmall bufhes : 

 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 deftroyer of 

 rabbets, young wild ducks, and other water fowl. 

 Defer. Its ufual weight is twenty ounces: the length 

 twenty-one inches: the breadth four feet three inches: 

 the bill is black, cere yellow ; irides of the fame 

 color: the whole bird, head excepted, is of a choco- 

 late brown, tinged with ruft color : on the head is a 

 large yellowifh fpot ; we have feen fome birds of this 

 kind with their head and chin entirely white ; the 

 others again have a whitifli fpot on the coverts of 



* In fome places it is called the duck haijjL 



their 



