FALCO ^RUGINOSUS. 



MOOR BUZZARD. 



Generic Character. ^<?^ Falco Chryfeatos. 

 Synonyms. 



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Falcx) ^ruginos'us. Um Syfl, i. p. 130; 2^. Ind, 



Orn. 1. p. 25. 53;. 

 Moor Buzzard. Br. Zool. 1. 57. lb. fol. 67. ink 



A. 5. Ardl. ZooL. 2. p. 225. X. 



id!/^. SyUk u p. 53. Ib. Jupt. p. 15. 



M?»/. Or;?:. D/i^. ^o/. 2. Bewick's 



Br. Birds, Pt, u p. 61. 



Jl H rS fpecies is about twenty^ one incHes in length, nearly 

 three feet in breadth^ and weighs twenty-two ounces. Bill 

 an inch' and: a half long, having a flight notch near the tip ; 

 irides yellow ; legs and^ claws long and flender. Colours of 

 the female not fo bright as thofe of the male, which- it exceeds 

 in fize, being about twenty-four inches in length : both fexes 

 vary in colour, they are fometimes found of an entire choco- 

 Golate brown, alfo with the head and neck white. 



The Moor Buzzard is not fo generally difperfed as fome 

 of its congeners, it ufually afFeds moift barren fituations, fuch 

 as fwampy moors and commons, and fandy fpots near the fea ; 

 with us they are a £hy folitary bird, but Mr. Montague 



fays. 



