Our Birds of Prey. 159 
wings are black. Many of the feathers of the forebreast, 
and those of the head especially, are marktd with black 
shaft stripes ; while the wings, which are quite short, are 
thickly spotted or blotched with white, especially in the 
front, and on the inner parts of the quills. 
In one species, L. albicollis> the length is about from 
20-22 inches. The white shoulder feathers are regularly 
black-banded near the white tips, the bands being drawn 
out to a point, on each side, along the shaft, and giving 
a very patterned appearance ; and the tail is white at the 
base and white-tipped, the greater portion being occupied 
by a very broad black band. 
In the second and much smaller form L. melanops, which 
is only from about 14-16 inches in length, there is much 
less white on the shoulders, and the tail is black, with a 
very distinct and rather broad band of white at about an 
inch from the extremity. The feathers over the ears are 
also black. This smaller species is much more commonly 
met with than the larger, and will at times be seen flying 
about cleared and open spaces in the forest, such as at 
Seba, along the Demerara river. 
The small, white-fronted buzzard, Buteola brachyura, 
reaches a length of from 15-16 inches. It will readily be 
known by its round nostrils with a central tubercle, and 
by the rather long wings which reach nearly to the tip 
of the tail. Its colour is generally brownish-black 
above and white below, with partially concealed white 
bases to the feathers of the head and sides of the neck, 
a narrow frontal portion being quite white. In the 
younger stages, it is varied with yellowish white ; while 
again varieties are met with in which the black spreads 
over the entire bird, though blotched here and there with 
