LINNEAN GENUS FALCO. 577 



9.nd that in another species, an analagous change 

 should take place in Britain, and be resisted in 

 North America. 



What Latham anticipated, has now taken 

 place. Speaking of the Ring-tail, he observes. 



The above hints may urge others to make fur- 

 ther observations, in order to procure a certainty 

 in this ; and may, at the same time, lead us to 

 discriminate other birds supposed of different spe- 

 cies, perhaps proving on a more intimate acquain- 

 tance, to be merely owing to opposition of sex." 



To the Falco apivorus, it is probable that ano- 

 ther species is also referable. Dr Gmelin gives 

 the Falco alhidus and Falco variegatus, or Speckled 

 Buzzard, as separate species, though he mentions 

 in a note his suspicion of their being the same. 

 Dr Latham, however, considers them as forming 

 one species, and in h.h Index Ornithologicus, (p. 24». 

 No. 48.) refers to both Gmelin's species as sy- 

 nonyms. 



If the Falco albidus, or Whitish Buzzard, is ad- 

 mitted to be specifically the same as the Falco api- 

 vorus, or Honey Buzzard, it follows, that such birds 

 as have been described as varieties of the one per- 

 tain likewise to the other ; so that if the Speckled 

 Buzzard be really identical with the Falco albidus, 

 it should, in common with the latter, be considered 

 as synonimous with the Honey Buzzard. 



The general characters of the Speckled Buz- 

 zard, certainly agree well with this supposition, 



