HONE Y-B UZZARD. 
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margined with a lighter tint, and having a dark median streak; and the tail pale 
brown, with the extreme tip whitish, and marked by three dark transverse bars. 
Beneath, the plumage is white, narrowly streaked with brown, such streaks 
expanding on the sides of the body into spade-shaped markings. As in our figure, 
there may be some white on the tips of the wing-feathers. The iris is straw- 
coloured, the beak black, and the feet yellow with black claws. Young birds, as 
shown in the lower figure of our illustration, are generally brown or yellowish 
brown, with the shafts of the feathers distinctly streaked with black, and the 
under-parts more rufous than the upper surface. The ashy brown tail is broadly 
tipped with bullish white, and is crossed by two distinct chocolate bars, one near 
HONEY-BUZZARDS (i liat. size). 
the end and the other near the middle, between which are a number of imperfect 
dark bars. The iris is hazel. The length of the adult bird is about 25 b inches, 
so that it may be compared in size to a kite. The honey - buzzard ranges 
over the greater part of Europe, and probably occurs in several parts of 
Northern Asia, as it has been recorded from Japan and near Pekin. In Sweden 
it breeds within the Arctic Circle, and it has frequently nested in England. 
During the winter it migrates to Arabia, Africa, and Madagascar. In India it is 
replaced by the crested honey-buzzard (P. ptilorhynchus ); a species ranging 
through the Malayan region, distinguished by the crest of the adults, and re¬ 
markable for its great individual variation, some individuals being light fulvous, 
while others are nearly black. A third species (P. celebensis ) inhabits Celebes. 
