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HONEY - BUZZARD. 
reflections on the wings and back, the feathers 
white at the base ; tail with three indistinct paler 
bars, and tipped with yellowish white ; the basal 
half of the inner webs of the quills white, clouded 
with pale clove brown in the form of bars. In 
the collection of P. J. Selby. 
Two other specimens, killed previously, have the 
head, neck, and under parts white, dashed with 
pale clove brown ; the back, wings, and tail pale 
clove brown, upon the shoulders having the 
feathers tipped with yellowish white ; the cere 
and legs greenish yellow. In the collection of P. 
J. Selby* 
In this genus, and some allied ones, the young 
are generally clothed in a paler plumage. This is 
confirmed in the two specimens just mentioned, by 
the greenish yellow of the cere and legs, which 
do not seem to attain their brilliancy until after 
maturity ; and in one foreign species we have 
repeatedly seen the same distribution of colour. 
Milvus. — Generic characters. — Bill of mode- 
rate strength, cutting margin of the mandible 
with a slight obtuse lobe, cere short, nostrils 
placed rather obliquely, eliptical ; wings long, 
fourth quill longest, the first five notched in 
the inner webs ; tail long, more or less forked ; 
* Represented Plate I. of Ornithological Illustrations, 
new series. 
