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P lace.
it is wholly brown; but has legs and claws of twice the fize of a
Falcon.
This bird is found in the Antilles, or Caribbee IJlands. It’s
food chiefly confifts of fmall birds, fnakes, and lizards.
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+-COMMON
BUZZARD.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Falco buteo, Lin. Syjf. i. p. 127. N° 15.
■ ■ ■ -—— Scop. Ann. i. p. 15. N°4»
La Buie, Brif. orn. i. p. 406, N° 32.
— ----------------Buf. oif. i. p. 206. t. 8.— PI. enl. 419.
Buteo vulgaris, Raii Syn, p. 16,
Common Buzzard, Will. orn. p. 70.— Albin. i. t. I.
Buzzard, Br. Zool. i. p. 188. N° 54. t. 25.
— ----------------Am. Zool. N°
Lev. Muf.
| T is bigger than a Kite in the body: length one foot eight
inches. Bill lead-colour: cereluteous: irides dark : the body
is ferruginous brown above; beneath pale, varied with brown :
tail above brown, barred with darker brown; beneath greyilh,
and tipped with rufous white : legs luteous : claws black.
This is the common Buzzard of all authors, and is a bird
known by every one; It’s food is various; eating birds, fmall
quadrupeds, reptiles, and infetts. It is very fubjeft to vary in
different fpecimens; fcarcely two being alike.
Le
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Le Gros Bufard, Brif. cm. i. p. 398. N° 28.
Huner-habigt ; fiuner-Geyer. Frifch. t. 72.
29.
g r e a t e r
b u z z a r d .
C IZ E of our Buzzard: length one foot eleven inches. The bill Description-.
is black: the cere yellow : irides faffron-colour : above the
feathers are brown, with rufous edges; beneath rufous, with oval
brown fpots ; in fome unfpotted: under tail-coverts plain rufous
: tail brown, with broad bars of deeper brown: legs yellow
: claws black.
Le Bufard varie, Brif. cm. i. p. 400. N° 28. A.
A . TRIFLE lefs than the preceding, being in length only one
foot eight inches. It differs from it in having the wings
more variegated; the upper wing-coverts being fpotted with
alh-colour; the lefier quills, from the middle to near the end,
are white; the end itfelf blackifh: on each of thefe feathers
is a blackifh fpot on the outer webs, which, when the wing is
clofed, form a tranfverfe blackifh band.
This is a variety only of the laft-mentioned.
29.
V a r . A.
SPOTTED
B.
D e s c r i p t io n .
g I Z E of a Buzzard: length twenty inches. Bill black : cere
yellow: iris the fame: general colour a dark cream, or
brownifh buff; paleft on the under parts : crown of the head
plain : the feathers on the back have the middle and the fhafts
brown : greater wing-coverts obfcurely barred with brown :
H greater
+- CREAM-
COLOURED
B.
N. S.
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