FALCON. 87 



31 —MOOR BUZZARD. 



Falco aeruginosus, Tnrf. Orn. i. p. 25. Lin. i. 130. Faun. Succ. No. 66. Gm. Lin. 



i. 267. Raii Syn. p. 17. Will. p. 42. t. 7. Brun, p. 5. Midler, No. 69. TauH. 



^rasr. p. 69. Sepp. Fog. t. p. 15. Nozem. Ned. Vog. t. 8. 9. ii:/ej»i .4«. p. 51. 



Id. Stem. p. 8. t. 7. f. 1. a. h. Id. Ov. p. 19. t. 6. f.3. Kramer, 328. Phil. Trans. 



liv. p. 346. Frisch. t. 77. /^. Po^e^. p. 28. Beckst. Deutsch. ii. s. 249. Baud. 



Orn. ii, p. 165. Shaw's Zool. y\\. \\Q. Tern. Man. d' Orn. p- 25. 

 Falco bceticus, Gerin. Orn. t. 32, 33. 34. 

 Circus palustris, Bris. i. 401. Id. 8vo. 115. 

 Busard, Buf. i. 218. 1. 10. pi. enl. 424. Cet. uc. Sard. p. 45. 

 Faux Perdrieux, Belon. 114. Hist, de Lyons, i. 203. 

 II Nibbio, Zinnan. XJov. p. 83. t. 13. f. 74. 

 Huhnerweylie, Natitrf. viii. s. 55. 23. 

 Moor Buzzard, Gen. %n. i. p, 53. Id. Snp. p.\b. Br.Zool.'i. no. 57. pi. 27. Id. 



fol. 67. t. A.5. Id.ed. 1812. i. p. 237. pi. 28. Arct.Zool.il p. 225. L. W^i//, 



Engl. p. 75, pi. 7. ^/6.i. pi. 3. Bewick, i. pi. p. 19, Lewin's Birds, i. pi. 8. 



Id. Eggs, t. ii. f. 1. Walcot, i. pi. 8. Pult. Dorset, p. 3. Lin. Trans, iv. p. 13. 



THE length of this species is 21 in. ; weight 20 oz. ; bill 

 black ; cere and irides yellow ; general colour of the plumage cho- 

 colate brown, witli a ferruginous tinge ; legs yellow, long, and 

 slender. The female is larger, weighing 27 or 28 ounces; is 22 in. 

 long, and 4 ft. 4 in. in extent of wing. 



It is subject to much variety ; some specimens are plain, as 

 above described ; but in others the crown of the head, throat, and 

 shoulders, are yellow, or clay colour ; sometimes the crown of the 

 head is yellowish white, in others the whole head of that colour. 

 In two young birds, which I saw in full feather, one had the first 

 and second outer quills of the right wing, and a large triangular 

 spot on the chin white, and the bottom of the thighs the same ; the 

 other had the crown yellow, and a large spot of yellow on the 

 chin; otherwise the colour of both these birds was ferruginous 



