FALCO iERUGINOSUS. 
MOOR BUZZARD. 
Generic Character. See Falco Chryfeatos, 
Synonyms. 
Falco iERuciNOSus. Un. Syfi. i. ^, 130, 29. Ind. 
Dm, 1. p, 25. 53. 
Moor Buzzard. Br, Zool. 1. 57. Ik fol Sj, iak 
A, ^. Ar5i, ZooL 2. p. 225. L. 
Lath Syn. x. p. 53. Ib.fupt.p. 15* 
Mont. Orn. I>i5l. Vol. 2. BewicJCs 
Br. Birds, Pt. 1, p. 61, 
T 
, Jt H I S 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 5 
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-^ 
late brown, alfo with the head and neck white. 
The Moor Buzzard is not fo generally difperfed as fomc 
of its congeners, it ufually affeds moift barren fituations, fuck 
as fwampy moors and commons, and landy fpots near the fea ; 
with us they are a fhy folitary bird, but Mr. Montague 
fays,. 
