80 FALCON. 



could not obtain one, bnt very obligingly sent me a drawing of the 

 subject in question instead ; common in some parts of Spain, and 

 now and then taken at Gibraltar on its passage to and from Barbary. 



A. — Falco Freti Hudsonis, £m. i. 356. Jrf. 8vo. 103. Daud.'u, lb6.T>. Qm. Lin. 



i. 267. Shaw's Zool. vii. p. 110. 

 Faucon de la Baie d'Hudson, Bnf.\. 223, 

 La Biise cendree, Vieill, Am. i. p. 33. 

 Ash-coloured Buzzard, Gen. Si/n.i. p. 55. Ediv. p\.b3, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 103. 



THE American bird is somewhat larger than the European ; 

 the bill and cere bluish; irides yellow; over the eye a white line 

 spotted with brown, under it a dusky one ; plumage above cinereous 

 bro^vn ; beneath mixed with white ; cpiills dark bro^vn, the first 

 spotted outwardly w ith white ; tail above cinereous brown, banded 

 with grey ; beneath cinereous, banded with white ; legs bluish ash- 

 colour, feathered for half the length ; claws black. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay, Newfoundland, and other places in 

 America : called, at New York, the great hen Hawk. 



B.— Buteo pennatus, Daud. ii. 150. 

 Buse Gantee, L^vait. Ois, pi. 28. 



This seems to be a variety of the common Buzzard, having the 

 leffs and toes feathered, Levaillant met with this bird in Africa, 



C. — Buteo Albus, Dmid. ii. 155. 



This variety' is white, marked ^vith brownish spots ; most sparing 

 on the head, throat, and breast ; wings white. 

 Tm o of these are in the Museum at Paris, 



