greater quills very dark cream-colour, verging to brown; the Ihafts
very pale: the belly and lides are dalhed with perpendicular
blotches of brown, but irregularly : the thighs are of a pale
buff white, with narrow bars' of pale brown: between the legs
and the vent the fame, but without bars: tail' rather fhorter
. than in the common Buzzard; of the fame colour with the back;
at firft fight appearing of a plain colour, but oaclofe infpeftion
feveral narrow bars, o f a fomewhat darker colour may be perceived
: the legs are fhort, flout, and. of a yellow colour,-:
claws black.
Piace. This beautiful fpecimen was fent to me from Jamaica by an
intelligent friend, and a good naturalift, who did not hint the:
leaft of it’s being a variety of the common Buzzard, which I:
lhould otherwife have fufpefted; but remarked that it was fc.arc.e_
in that iflancf.
3*-- AMERICAN: B. N. S.
Lev, Muf,
g I Z E of our Buzzard, or, if any thing, rather-bigger. The-
bill is black :. cere pale yellow.:, on the upper parts the.colour
is brown : the feathers on the back have pale edges: the-
chin is white, lightly dalhed with brown : fore part of the neck:
and bread: are of a paler brown, than the back, and a trifle-mottled
: the belly is white; each feather has the lhaft brown,,
which fpreads out into a lozenge-lhape.d mark.as. it advances to
the tip, not unlike a fpear with the head downwards: the vent
is plain white :. the quills, are dulky : tail of a plain ferruginous
colour,.
colour, with the bafe inclining to white, and a narrow band of
black near the end : legs pale yellow: claws black.
This bird came from North America, and is in the Leverian
Le Bufard roux, Brif. orn. l. p, 404. N° 30. 32.
La Harpaye, Bufi oif. i. p. 217.— PI. ent. 460. HARPY
Fifchgeyer ; Brandgeyer, Frifch. t. 78.
C I Z E of the female Golhawk : length one foot eight inches. D e s c r i p t io n .
The bill is black: iris faffron-colour: general colour of
the plumage rufous; but the back, fcapulars, greater coverts,
and rump, incline to brown: where the parts are rufous, each
feather has a longitudinal ftripe of brown down the middle of
each feather. Thighs plain rufous: tail afh-colour: the greater
quills are black, the lefier ones alh-colour; except the three
which are next to the body, which are brown : the legs are yellow
: claws black.
This fpecies is frequent in the low places, and banks of rivers
and ponds, both in France and Germany. Preys often on filh,
which it takes alive out of the water. Frifch fays, that it is endowed
with a very quick fight, more fo than any other rapacious
bird.
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