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‘The A s H-C OLouRED Buzzard. 
I .Have given this Bird the above Name, becaufe it comes pretty near the Bird we call 
a Buzzardy or Pottocky in its Shape, Magnitude, and partly in its Colour, thp’ 
it differs in many Refpedts, which fhews it to be fpecifically different from our’s in En- 
glandy which fee defcribed in Willoughbf^ Ornithology, p. 70. Pab. 6, It feemed to me 
of the Bignefs of a middle-fized Hen or Cock ; its Shape and due Proportions I have, 
as well as I could, expreffed in the Figure. 
The Bill is of a blueifh Lead-Colour, cover’d with a Skin of the fame Colour, from 
the Noftrils to the Point an Inch and a Qi^arter, from the Angles of the Mouth to the 
Point of the Bill two Inches: The Head, and Fore-part of the Neck,., are cover’d with 
Feathers, having dark brown Spots in the Middle, the reft of the Feathers being 
white, which make a pretty Appearance of White fpotted with dark Brown j from the 
Angles of the Mouth is drawn on each Side under the Eyes a dusky Line j the dark 
Spots on the Breaft are larger than thofe on the Head j the Sides and Belly are co¬ 
vered with dark brown Feathers, fpotted with round or oval Spots of White; the 
Thighs are covered with foft, loofe, white Feathers, with long irregular Dafhes of 
dark Brown down their Shafts j the covert Feathers on the under Side of the Tail are 
barr’d tranfverfly with Black and White ; the whole upper Side, Neck, Back, Wings, 
and Tail, are covered with brownifh afh-coloured Feathers, darker in their middle 
Parts, their Edges becoming gradually lighter, which is moft manifeft in the fmaller 
covert Feathers of the Wings, their very Edges being almoft white. The outer Webb 
of the firft Quill is fpotted with a light Colour ; the inner Webb on the under Side is 
Afh-colour, indented with White very diftindtly, which Indenture becomes more and 
more confufed and broken till the twelfth Qmll, where it wholly difappears, the reft 
of the Quilfs within being Afli-colour : The covert Feathers, within-fide of the Wings, 
are of a dark, dirty Brown, fprinkled with round Spots of White: The upper Side of 
the Tail is barr’d a-crofs with narrow Bars of Clay-Colour ; as are the Feathers that co¬ 
ver the upper Side of the Tail: The under Side of the Tail is Afh-colour barr’d a-crofs 
with White : The Legs and Feet are of a blueifh Afh-colour ; the Claws black ; the 
fore Part of the Legs are cover’d half Way to the Feet with dusky Feathers. 
This Bird was brought from Hudfon's Bay by Mr. Alexander Eighty who gave it 
me; it was a fluffed Skin well preferved: He told me its principal Prey was the Lago- 
pus avisy known in thofe Parts by the Name of the white Partridge^ which I have 
placed with him by way of Decoration; but as I defign a Plate in particular of the 
white Partridgey I fliall fay nothing of him here farther, than to let the Reader knov/, 
that he is in this Plate figur’d in his full Winter’s Drefs, being wholly white, except 
fome black Feathers in his Tail. The Figure that follows, Pag. 72. will reprefent 
him in the Spring, when he is changing from White to Brown, orRedifh. 
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