200 ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 
slender than that of the common bird, but the 
wings, tail, and plumage, are more ample. The 
head is in proportion small, and the bill weak. 
One of our East-Lothian specimens agrees very 
closely with that described by Mr Selby. The 
head, neck, throat, and breast are yellowish white, 
with broad triangular spots, and lengthened streaks 
of brown on the latter ; the head and neck nar- 
rowly streaked with markings of the same colour. 
The belly in front of the thighs is deep utnber 
brown, forming a band across ; upper parts umber 
brown ; the feathers edged with yellowish white, 
tinted with reddish ; the quills darker in shade, 
and fading towards the base to fine yellowish 
white, marked with a few dark incomplete bars ; 
the upper tail coverts and base of the tail white, 
the remainder of the latter umber brown, banded 
towards the tip with a deeper shade, and having 
the whole tinted with reddish- The white colour 
of the base of the tail seems a constant character 
in all the specimens we have examined nearly 
without variation ; the feathers of the thighs are 
yellowish, streaked with umber brown, those 
clothing the tarsi short and thick, of a paler tint, 
and narrowly streaked with brown. 
In another specimen, the colour of the upper 
part is deeper and more solid, the streaking of the 
breast and throat broader, and the tips of the tail 
coverts barred with umber brown, on a pure white 
