FALCON, 261 



202.— JAMAICA BUZZARD. 



Falco Jamaicensis, Tnd. Orn. i. 24. Gm. Lin. i. 2G6. Daud. ii. 157. Shaw's Zool. 



vii. p. 111. 

 La Buse fauve, Vieill. Am, i. p. 34, 

 Cream-coloured Buzzard, Gen. Syn. i. 49; 



SIZE of a Buzzard ; length 20 in. Bill black, cere yellow ; 

 plumage dark cream-colour, paler beneath; crown of the head plain, 

 but the feathers of the back are brown down the middle ; greater 

 wing coverts obscurely barred with brown ; quills dark cream-colour, 

 inclining to brown ; belly and sides marked with streaks of brown, 

 but irregularly ; thighs pale buff white, barred with pale brown ; 

 vent plain ; tail shorter than in the common Buzzard, the colour the 

 same as the back, crossed with several obscure darker bars ; legs 

 short, stout, yellow ; claws black. 



Inhabits Jamaica. I received a specimen of the above fiom an 

 intelligent fiiend many years since, who did not hint the least of its 

 being a variety of the common Buzzard, which at tirst sight might 

 be suspected — but remarked, that it was a scarce bird. 



203.— MINGLED BUZZARD. 



La Buse mixte noire, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 20. 



LENGTH 23 in. extent of wing 54. Cere yellow ; irides deep 

 rufous I upper part of the head^ the neck, the whole of the body. 



