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- The Moor Buzzard. Milvus iEruginofus; /t^uuU'^^ 



Numb. Ill 



IT is not fo big as the common Buzzard, nor the Crown fo flat and 

 broad : Its Length from the point of the Bill to the end of the Tail 

 was 2 4 Inches ; the Diftance between the Wings, when extended, y 6 

 Inches ; the Beak about an Inch and a half long, hooked, cover'd at 

 Bottom with an afh-colour'd Skin or Sear, elfe black ; the Noftrils longifh ; 

 the Mouth within fide partly black, partly bluifh ; the Tongue broad, flefhy 

 and foft, as in other Birds of Prey; the Cleft in the Palate wide and open; 

 the Eyes of a mean Size ; the Iridis yellow. 



The Top of the Head under the Chin, and the covert Feathers on the 

 upper fide of the Wings joining to the Body, are of a pale-oker or fulvous 

 Colour, variegated with black Lines ; the Colour of the whole Body, as 

 well lower Side as upper, is of a dark ferrugineous Colour. 



The Wings, when clofed, reach almoft to the end of the Tail; the 

 Number of flag Feathers in each Wing are 24, thefe are darker; theout- 

 mofl is a Hand's-breadth fhorter than the next to it ; the covert Feathers 

 of the under flde of the Wings are party-colour'd, brown and fulvous. 



The Tail is made up of 12 Feathers, about 9 Inches long, terminating 

 in a circular Form when fpread, being party-colour'd, of a dark and 

 light fulvous, or bay. 



The Legs are from the Knee to the end of the middle Claw 6 Inches, 

 feather'd a little below the Knee; they are longer aud flenderer for the 

 Bignefs of the Bird than others of the Hawk Kind ; the Legs and Feet are 

 yellow ; the Talons black ; the outer Toe is joined to the Middle by an 

 intermediate Membrane reaching from the Devarication up almoft half 

 way ; the Talon of the middle Toe is thinn'd on the inner flde into an 

 Edge : It hath a large Gall, and its blind Guts fhort and fmall ; they 

 are common on Heaths and Waftes, fitting on fmall Trees and Shrubs,, 

 and build in fenny Places. 



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