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circular. The Eyes are great, the Irides, or circles encompaffing the Pupil, white Eyes 

 with a dafh fometimes of yellow, fometimes of red 5 fometimes they are of a whitifh 

 colour without mixture of any other. The lower Eye-lid downy. The Membrane 

 for Nidation blue. 



m The colour of all the upper part a dark fulvous approaching to black, or a ferru- The coteurof 

 gineous black. In fome birds of this kind we obferved many white fpots in the co- the upper 

 vert feathers of the Wings 5 which in the Wings fpread made a kind of white line : M *' 

 The like white fpots it had in the long feathers fpringing from the flioulders, which 

 cover the whole back. 1 he edges of thefe feathers were of a dirty yellow. The 

 lower fide of the body was of a dilute yellow, or yellowiih white 5 the bread ftained CoIour of tllrf 

 with oblong ferrugineous fpots, not tranfverfely placed, but tending downwards in Iower fide ' 

 each feather drawn according to the length of the (haft. The Chin is of a ferrugi- 

 neous colour, the (hafts of the feathers being black. Between the Eyes and Nofthi ils 

 grow long black briftles. On the middle of the back grow no feathers, but only down- 

 for the fcapular feathers cover the whole back. 



The flag-feathers in each Wing are about twenty four in-number : The outmoft The Flag- 

 of which is fhorteft, the third and fourth (counting from it) Jongeft. The tips of Feathers of 

 the four outmoft are blacker and narrower than thofe of the reft : For the tips of t ^ e the Wln § s - 

 reft are white. The interiour webs of all are variegated with broad, tranfverfe, 

 dusky, and whitifh ftrakes or bars, after the manner of thofe of a Woodpecker or 

 Woodcock. The under-fide of the Wings, excepting the tips of all the flags, and the 

 third part of the five outmoft feathers, is white varied with tranfverfe parallel lines. 

 .The Wings clofed reach almoft to the end of the Train. The Train is nine or ten 

 inches long, made up of twelve feathers, not forked, but when fpread terminating The Tail 

 in a circular circumference. The utmoft tips of its feathers are of anafa-colour 5 then 

 follows a tranfverfe black line of an inch breadth, the remaining part being vane 

 gated with black and cinereous tranfverfe fpaces or bars, only the bottoms of the 

 feathers white. • 



The Thighs are long, ftrong, andflemy: The Legs fhort, thick, and ftrong, fea- The Legs, 

 thered down a little below the Knees. The Legs and Feet yellow, and covered with Feet > 

 Scales. The outmoft toe joyned below to the middlemoft by a membrane for fome Tocs > an <* 

 fpace, The Talons ftrong, long, and black, that of the outmoft fore-toe the leaft claws. 

 that of the back-toe the biggeft. ' 



The Liver is divided into two lobes, having a large Gall : The Spleen of an Oval The entrails. 

 figure. It hath but two Tefticles. The ftomach is large, not mufculous but mem- 

 branous, thatisnotflefhy, like the Gizzard of a hen or Turkey, 8cc. but skinny like 

 thofe of beafts. J 



It feeds not only upon Mice and Moles,but alfo upon Birds : For out of the ftomach its Food, 

 of one that we opened we took a fmall Bird entire, and out of the ftomach of ano- 

 ther even a Thrufi, It is a great deftroyerof Comes: Yet for want of better food it 

 will feed upon Beetles, Earth-worms, and other Infecfs. 



The heads of thefe Birds arefaid to grow * cinereous with age, and the feathers of* A/h-colo* 

 their backs white. But whether it come to pafs by reafon of Sex, or Age, or other "he diffe 

 accident, certain it is they differ very much one from another in this refped : For rence in go- . 

 whereas fome have no white feathers neither in head, back, nor wings 5 others have Iour ' 

 very many. 



Buzzards Eggs are white, ftained with a few great reddifh fpots, yet fometimes all Their Eggs. 

 over white without (pots. 



That fort of Hawk ( as Pliny witnefleth ) which the Romans named Buteo was by 

 the Grecians called Trtorches, from the number of its ftones. Aldrovandus alfo faith Reafonof thc 

 thatina JSwaz^diffcftedhe had obferved three ftones. The third (tone appeared ST ^ 

 not to us, though we diligently fought it. Aldrovandus alfo himfelf faith, that he 

 would not very much contend with him that fhall obftinately deny that third glan- 

 dulous body ( which befides the two ftones he had noted, adioyninp- to them ) to be 

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