BIRDS. ACCIPITRES. ft Falcd. S3 



& F» Halzaetos. Above brown, beneath white with a 

 few brown spots : hind head and neck whitish : cere 

 and legs blue. 



€>fprey. Lewin ft 5. Wakot v. U 5. Donovan t, 70. 



Length 25 inches : extent 5 feet 4 inches : weight 62 ounces. Moun» 

 tainous lakes. i?*7/black : iVij yellow : Aearf small, flat j the feathers 

 brown with white margins : the back-part throat and neck white 

 mixed with brown : from the eye is a brown band reaching nearly 

 to the shoulder : feathers of the bach and wings dull-brown edged 

 With white : breast and belly white with rusty-brown spots : legs 

 feathered just below the knees : 2 middle tail-feathers dusky-brown, 

 the rest alternately barred on their inner webs with brown and 

 white : claws black. 



*t* F. Milvus. Ferruginous-brown : head and chin grey 

 -with brown lines : cere and legs yellow : tail deeply 

 forked. 



Kite, lewin. t. 10. Donovah t. 47. Walcot 1. t. 10. 



Length 27 inches : extent 5 feet and an inch : weight 44 ounces. 

 Woods. Bill horn-colour : iris pale yellow : neck and breaft ferru- 

 ginous, the middle of the feathers black : belly ferruginous with 

 fewer fpots : back ferruginous, the feathers dark above in the mid- 

 dle with pale edges : outer quill-feathers dusky-black with obscure 

 bars: tail bright ferruginous, the outer-feathers nearly black ; legs 

 feathered to the knees : claws black. 



$. F. Buteo, Above brown : breast and belly dirty white 

 with rusty-brown spots: cere and legs yellow : tail 

 with dusky bars. 



Buzzard. Brit. Zbol. t, 25. Lewin t. 6. Donovan t. 11. 



Length 22 inches : extent 52 : weight 32 ounces. 

 Woods. Bill lead-colour, tipt with black : iris white, tinged with 

 red: head and upper part of the breaft pale ferruginous ; lower-breaft 

 with dirty-white blotches : throat and back of the head white with 

 yellow-brown ftreaks : fcapulars and wing-coverts tipt with pale 

 ferruginous and dirty white, the two laft coverts with an edge of 

 the fame : belly white, with a few ferruginous fpots \ thighs deep 

 ferruginous with deeper bars ; inner«webs of the primary quill* 

 feathers white towards the bafe. s tail with blackish and cinereous 

 bars, dull-white at the tip : legs feathered below the knees : claws 

 black. 



$. F. apivorus. Above deep brown, beneath white with 

 red-brown transverse spots; head cinereous : cere 

 dusky : legs dull yellow : tail with 2 dusky-brown 

 bars. 



Honey Buzzard. Lewin t. 7. Albih 1. 1. 2, 



Length 23 inches : breadth 4 feet 1 ; weight 30 ounces. 

 Woods. Bill black ; iris yellow ; chin yellow-white with narrow 

 Jirown longitudinal ftreaks : breaft and belly with tranfverfe fpots of 

 white and red-brown ; tail fometimes with a single cinereous band, 

 and tipt with white : tigs feathered below the knees : claws 

 h dusky.- 



10. F. (Lvuginoms* Chocolate-brown : crown and throat 

 yellowish or whitish; cere greenish yellow: legs 

 ,lon<r, yellow. 



Moor Buzzard. Brit. Zool, t. 27. Lewin t. 8. Walcot. t. 9. 



Length 21 inches : extent 4 feet 3 : weight 20 ounces. 

 Moors. Bill Slack : iris yellow; body chocoUte-colour, with a 

 ferruginous tinge : crown and throat varying to yellow whitish or 

 rufty-brown ; legs long, slender, feathered to the knees : daws 

 Black. 



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