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COMMON BUZZARD. 
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thickly clothed with small scale-like im- 
bricated feathers; wings ample, first quill 
shortest, third and fourth longest, the notch- 
ing of the four first not so marked as in 
Buteo ; tail ample, rather long, the two 
outer feathers slightly shorter than the ot hers ; 
tarsi short, comparatively weak, feathered 
for half their length, reticulated ; toes slen- 
der, the outer nearly equal to the inner, the 
anterior joints of all scutulated, claws weak, 
slightly hooked, with the inner edge of the 
middle one slightly dilated. 
Note Inhabits Europe, India ; breeds on 
trees; food chiefly hymenopterous insects 
and their larvae. 
