FALCONINtE. buteo. 
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GENUS 11. BUTEO, Bechst. BUZZARD. 
Bill short, with the upper outline nearly straight and de- 
clinate to the edge of the cere, then decurved, the sides 
rapidly sloping, the edges with a slight festoon, the tip tri- 
gonal, acute ; lower mandible with the dorsal line convex 
and ascending, the edges arched, at the end deflected, the 
tip rounded. Head large, roundish, flattened above. Nos- 
trils, obovate, nearer the ridge than the margin. Neck ra- 
ther short. Body full. Feet short, robust ; tarsi roundish, 
anteriorly feathered half-way down, and scutellate, poste- 
riorly also scutellate ; toes of moderate length, scaly for 
half their length ; claws long, arched, compressed, acumi- 
nate. Plumage full and rather blended. Space between 
the bill and eye covered with bristly feathers. Wings long, 
broad, the fourth quill longest, the first and seventh or 
eighth about equal ; the first four abruptly cut out on the 
inner web. Tail rather long, broad, slightly rounded. Cere 
and feet yellow ; bill light blue at the base, black at the 
tip, in all the American species. 
5. 1. Buteo Harrisii, Aud. Harris’s Buzzard. 
Plate CCCXCII. Female. 
Bill higher and feet more robust than in the other species. Wings 
much rounded, the first quill four inches shorter than the fourth, jwhich 
is longest, the seventh longer than the second. Chocolate-brown ; 
wing-coverts and tibial feathers brownish-red ; upper tail-coverts, base 
and end of tail white. 
Female, 24, wing 15 
Mississipi. Extremely rare. Migratory. 
Louisiana Hawk, Falco Harrisii, Acd. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 30. 
6. 2. Buteo vulgaris, Willoughby. Common Buzzard. 
Plate CCCLXXIL Female. 
Upper parts chocolate-brown ; primaries black toward the end, part 
of their inner webs white, barred with brownish-black ; tail with about 
ten dusky bars on a reddish-brown ground, the last dark bar broader ; 
eyelids whitish ; throat white, longitudinally streaked with dusky ; the 
