FALCON. 7^ 



27— BUZZARD. 



Falco Buteo, Jnd.OrH. i. p. 23. Lin. Si/st.\. V27. Fn. Suec. T^o.60. Gm. Lin.'u 265. 



Raii Si/n.p.l6. mil. ip.3S, t.G. Scop. J>in.\. 'So.4. jB;k?!. p.5, Mh//.No. 64. 



Georo-i p. 164. Bris. i. AQd. Id. 8\-o.20G. Klein. J v. ^.bO. Id. Stem. ^.S. t. 8. 



f. 2. a. b. Id Of. p. 19. t. 6. f. 2. FaHn.Arag.-p.6S. Kram. el.S2Q. Beckst. 



Deutsch. ii. s. 238. t. x. Daud. u. 154. Hist.de Lyons, \. 198. Goiraii. Shaw's 



Zoo/, vii. p. 109. Tem.Man.d'0rn.p.2Q. M. Ed. 2. p. 63. 

 Busthart, Naturf. viii. s. 52. 



La Buse, Btif. i. 206. t. 8. PL Enl. 419. Voy. en Barb. i. 266. 

 Maasse Geyer, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t.50 ? 

 Pojana secunda, Zinnan. 85. 1. 14. f. -56. 

 Buzzard, Gen. Syn.'u p. 48. Id. Svp. p.l4. £r. Zoo/, i. No. 54. pi. 25. Id.fol.t. 



A. 3. Id. ed. 1812. i. p. 232. pi. 27. Will. Engl. p. 70. Alb.\. t. 1. Beii-ick i. 



pi. p. 15. LeicinBr.Birds.\.p\.6. WalcotBr. Birds. \. p\.6. Fult. Cat. p.3. 



Graves Br. Ornith. Orn. Diet. 



THIS is bigger in the body than a kite ; length 1 ft. 8in. ; bill 



lead colour ; cere luteous ; iride.? dark ; the body is ferruginous Ijrown 



above ; beneath pale, varied with brown ; tail broAvn above, barred 



with darker brown ; beneath greyish, tipped with rufous white ; legs 



yellow, claws black. Is the common Buzzard of all authors, hy 



.some called Puttock, and well known; its food is various; birds, small 



quadrupeds, reptiles and insects; varies extremely, scarcely two 



being found alike. It breeds in large woods, usually in an old crow's 



nest ; lays two or three eggs at most, which are bluish white, with 



rusty spots, chiefly at the larger end. In some parts of France is 



thought good food, and is generally fat in winter. Is not very 



freqvient in Russia, and in Siberia extremely scarce ; is sufficiently 



common in various parts of Germany, but certainly less so about 



Berlin, for I well recollect, that once desiring Dr. Bloch, of Berlin, 



to procure for me a Bustard's e^^, which is there not uncommon, he 



mistaking my meaning for that of a Buzzard's e^g^, obsei"ved, that he 



