262 FALCON, 



and the under wing coverts, thighs, and the greater part of the tail, 

 black ; upper wing coa erts brown ; quills barred brown and ash- 

 colour ; upper tail coverts, and a third of the upper part of the tail, 

 white; with a small mixture of white at the tips of the thigh 

 feathers ; legs yellow. 



This is not uncommmon about Paraguay, on the borders of 

 stagnant waters — does not confine itself to living prey, but will also 

 devour any dead carcase that it may occasionally find. 



204— SPECKLED BUZZARD. 



Faleo varlegatus, Ind.Orn.'i. p. 24. Gm. Liii.i. 267. Daud.ii. 156, Shaiu^sZool. 



vii. 112. 

 Falco albidus, Gm. Lin. i. 267. 

 Eusard variee, Vieill. Am. i. p. 37. 

 Buzzaidet, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 109. 

 Speckled Buzzard, Gen. Si/n. i. p. 97. 



LENGTH fiom 10 to loin. ; shape of the common Buzzard. — 

 Bill dusky ; head and neck whitish, blotched down the shafts of the 

 feathers irregularly with dusky brown ; back and wings brown, some 

 of the coverts spotted with white; quills dark, nearly black; tail the 

 same, crossed with several, almost obsolete, bars ; under parts from 

 the breast white, blotched dov^ai the shafts with bro^vn, spreading 

 out larger and broader towards the belly ; thighs much the same ; 

 vent white ; legs yellow ; claws black. 



That of the Arctic Zoology had the tail barred, and tipped 

 with white, and we have seen one, with a broad brown belt across the 

 bellv, before the legs ; and the tail with blotched bands of deep 



