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same, but inclining to rufous yellow at the base, and towards the end 

 dusky ; belly and thighs light rufous, marked with transverse bands 

 of black brown ; quills black, and reach to the end of the tail. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and is supposed to be the same bird, which 

 M. Mauduit mentions in the Encyclopedic Methodique, by the name 

 of Busard roux de Cayenne. 



210.— WHITE-BREA>STED FALCON. 



American Buzzard, or White-breasted Hawk, Am. Orn. vi. pi. 52. f. 2. 



THIS is 22 in. long, and four feet in extent. Bill blue, point 

 black ; cere pale green ; irides bright straw-colour ; eyebrows much 

 projecting ; head broad, flat, and large ; the upper part, sides of the 

 neck, and back brown, streaked and seamed with white, and some 

 pale rust ; scapulars and wing coverts spotted with white ; quills as 

 in the American Buzzard ; tail coverts white, baiTcd brown ; tail 

 slightly rounded, pale brown, varying in some to sorrel, crossed 

 with nine or ten black bars, and tipped for half an inch with white ; 

 wings brown, baned with dusky, inner vanes all white ; chin, 

 throat, and breast white, with some slight touches only of brown, 

 enclosing the chin ; femorals yellowish white, thinly marked with 

 minute touches of rust ; legs bright yellow, feathered half way down ; 

 belly broadly spotted with black, or very deep brown ; the tips of 

 the wings reach to the middle of the tail. 



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