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FALCO APIVORUS. 



Honey Buzzard, 



Accipitres. 



Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked. ' An angle in each 

 margin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females larger and 

 more beautiful than the males. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Bill arched from the bafe, which is covered with a wax-like mem- 

 brane, or cere. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Bill and Cere black. Legs yellow ; Claws black. Head afn-co- 

 loured. Back and Wings dark brown. Breaft and Belly white, fpot- 

 ted. Tail barred. 



Falco Apivorus, Cere nigra, pedibus feminudis flaviss 

 capite cinereo, caudae fafcia cinerea 

 apice albo. — i^. Sv. 66. — Linn* 

 Syji. Nat. I. 91. 23. edit. 12, 

 Buteo Apivorus, Rati Syn. p. 16. N° 2. 

 Honey Buzzard, Will. Om. p. 72. t. 3, 

 Albin L U 2. 

 Pen. Br. Zool. I. N° 26. 

 Latham's Gen. Syn. L p. 52. N° 33, 

 Arft. ZooL 2. p. 224. /. 

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