116 MOOR BUZZARt). 



we found two Lizards entire, with their heads 

 lying towards the mouth, as if they sought to 

 creep out." Mr. Willughby adds, that it differs 

 from the Common Buzzard in having a longer 

 tail, an ash-coloured head, the irides of the eyes 

 yellow, thicker and shorter feet, and in the broad 

 transverse dun beds or strokes in the wings and 

 tail, which are about three inches broad. 



The most expressive figure of this bird is tha^ 

 in the folio edition of the British Zoology. 



ddOOU BUZZARD, 



Falco aeruginosus. F. fuscusy vertke luteo^ cera pedibusque 

 flams. 



Brown Buzzard, with the crown of the head luteous j the cere 



and legs yellow. 

 Falco aeruginosus. V. cera mrescente, corpore griseo, vertice 



gula axillis pedibusque luteis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Moor Buzzard. WilLorn, Penn. Brit. Zool. Lath, syti, 

 Le Busard. Buff. qIs, 1. p. 218^. pL 10. P4 Enl. 424. 



Size smaller than that of the Falco apivorus, 

 to which it seems extremely allied, but differs in 

 colour, which is a deep subferruginous brown, 

 except on the upper part of the head, which is 

 distinguished by a large yellow^ferruginous patch, 

 sometimes accompanied with a few scattered spots 

 of the same colour on the upper part of the neck, 

 and sometimes even extending in a continued bed 

 of colour over the neck and shoulders: the bill is 



