HONEY BUZZARD. 
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pale umber brown, which prevails over all the 
upper parts. Quills, with an inch and a half at 
the tip, very deep umber brown ; towards the 
base they become nearly white on the insides, 
and are crossed with irregular dark bars or 
blotches ; the third quill is longest, the next nearly 
equal, and the sinuation of the inner webs of the 
four first hardly so deep as in JButeo. Secon- 
daries, also with the tips dark umber brown, which 
forms a bar across the wing, a peculiarity of mark- 
ing also seen in the other known species of Pernis. 
The tail is rather long, of a paler tint than the 
back ; there is one broad dark band at the tip, a 
second more than half way up, and a third cross- 
ing at the tips of the upper coverts ; the inter- 
vening space is clouded with narrow indistinctly 
clouded bars. The throat is pure white, the 
shafts of the feathers of the chin only dark ; rest 
of the under parts pure white, having the tips of 
the feathers marked with a triangular bar of umber 
brown, darkest along the shafts ; insides of the 
thighs pure white; tarsi feathered nearly half 
way down. 
An adult male killed at Twizell in September, 
1835, is in length twenty-one inches and a half. 
Bill bluish black ; cere lemon yellow ; tarsi and 
feet of a deeper tint of the same colour ; plumage 
entirely very deep clove brown ; scaly feathers 
of the lore tinted with grey, and with Dullish 
