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^The A s H-C OLouRED Buzzard. 
I Have given this Bird the above Name, becaufe it comes pretty near the Bird we call 
a Buzzardy or Fottocky in its Shape, Magnitude, and partly in its Colour, tho* 
it differs in many Refpefe, which fhews it to be fpecifically different from our’s in En^ 
gland y which fee deferibed in Willoughby* s Ornithology, p, jo, Tab* 6. It feeined to me 
of the Bignefs of a middle-fized Hen or Cock 3 its Shape and due Proportions I have, 
as well as I could, exprefled in the Figure. 
The Bill is of a blueifh Lead-Colour, cover’d with a Skin of the fame Colour, from 
the Noftrils to the Point an Inch and a Quarter, from the Angles of the Mouth to the 
Point of the Bill two Inches : The Head, and Fore-part of the Neck, are cover’d with 
Feathers, having dark brown Spots in the Middle, the reft of the Feathers being 
white, which make a pretty Appearance of White fpotted with dark Brown; from the 
Angles of the Mouth is drawn on each Side under the Eyes a dusky Line ; the da^'k 
Spots on the Breaft are larger than thofe on the Head ; the Sides and Belly are co- 
vered with dark brown Feathers, fpotted with round or oval Spots of White ; the 
Thighs are covered with foft, loofe, white Feathers, with long irregular Daflies of 
dark Brown down their Shafts ; the covert Feathers on the under Side of the Tail are 
barr'd tranfverfly with Black and White ; the whole upper Side, Neck, Back, Wings, 
and Tail, are covered with brownifh afh-coloured Feathers, darker in their middle 
Parts, their Edges becoming gradually lighter, which is mod: manifefl in the fmaller 
covert Feathers of the Wings, their very Edges being almofl: white. The outer Webb 
of the firft C^ill is fpotted with a light Colour ; the inner Webb on the under Side is 
Afh-colour, indented with White very diflindily, which Indenture becomes more and 
more confufed and broken till the twelfth Qmll, where it wholly difappears, the red: 
of the Quills within being Afh-colour : The covert Feathers, within-fide of the Wings, 
are of a dark, dirty Brown, fprinkled with round Spots of White: The upper Side of 
the Tail is barr d a-crofs wdth narrow Bars of Clay-Colour ; as are the Feathers that co- 
ver the upper Side of the Tail : The under Side of the Tail is Afh-colour barr’d a-crofs 
with White : The Legs and Feet are of a blueifh Afh-colour ; the Claws black ; the 
fore Part of the Legs are cover’d half Way to the Feet with dusky Feathers. 
This Bird was brought from Hudfon*s Bay by Mr. Alexander Eighty who gave it 
me ; it was a duffed Skin well preferved : He told me its principal Prey was the Lago-‘ 
pus avisy ^ known in thofe Parts by the Name of the white PartridgCy which I have 
placed with him by way of Decoration ; but as I defign a Plate in particular of the 
white PartridgCy I fhall fay nothing of him here farther, than to let the Reader know, 
that he is in this Plate figur’d in his full Winter’s Drefs, being wholly white, except 
fbme^ black Feathers in his Tail. The Figure that follows, Pag. 72. will reprefent 
him in the Spring, when he is changing from White to Brown, or Redifh, 
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