Markers.
Si .
BROWN HAWK.
D escription.
ruginous brown: the under parts, thighs, and vent, pale yellow-
ilh white, with a dafh of brown on the middle of each feather:
quills dark afh: tail light brown above, blueilh alh beneath:
legs brown : the feathers on the head are rather long, fo as to
form a kind of creft.
This fpecies inhabits Senegal, and is called there by the natives
Tanas. Though it is fomewhat like the Falcon tribe, yet it differs
entirely in it’s nature, as it feeds oftener on fifh than on any
other prey; taking them out of the water as the Ofprey, above
defcribed. It does not fwallow the filh whole, but, retiring to a
convenient place, eats it piece-meal.
Brown Hawk, Brown, lllujlr. p. 6. t. 3*
TN length thirteen inches. Bill blue, with a black tip : iris
yellow: the upper part of the head, the back, and the tail-
coverts, are brown : wing-coverts the fame, but edged with
■ white: fcapulars brown, fpotted with white : quills dufky, with
pale brown edges : fore part of the neck and the under parts
are white, croffed with numerous femicircular yellow lines: tail
pale brown, marked with four dufky lines : legs very pale yellow
: claws black.
Inhabits Ceylon.
Le petit Aigle d’Amerique, Buf. nf. j. p. 142.
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J^ENG TH from fixteen to eighteen inches. The bill is blue,
ftraight at the bafe: cere, and round the eye, yellow: iris
orange: thrpat and neck of a fine purplifh red: upper parts
o f the body blue, with a reddifh call: belly and vent reddifh
white : legs yellow : claws black.
This is a mod beautiful fpecies: inhabits Cayenne, and other
parts of South America.
M. de Buffon calls this an Eagle, though fo fmall, as the bill is
crooked moftly at the tip.
Lev. Mu/.
T ENGTH more than twelve inches: in fhape like our common
Buzzard. The bill is dufky: the whole head and neck,
as far as the fhoulders, whitifh ; the fhaft of each feather
blotched irregularly with rufty brown : back, and wing-coverts,
brown; feveral of the feathers, efpecially on the wing-coverts,
are fpotted with white : tail dark brown, croffed with feveral
bars; but thefe are nearly obfolete, appearing only on a clofe
infpedtion: the quills are very dark, almoft black: the under
parts, from the breaft, are white; down the fhaft of each feather
is a blotch of brown; thefe marks fpread out larger and broader as
they proceed downwards to the belly : thighs pretty much the
fame : vent plain white: legs yellow: claws black.
A fine fpecimen of this bird is in the Leverian Alufeum, which
came from North America.
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REDTHROATED
P
D escription.
83-
SPECKLED
BUZZARD.
N. S.
D escription.
o Falco