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FALCON. SPE. VII. HONEY BUZZARD. No. 7. Falco apivorus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 130. La Bondree. Brif. Orn. I. p. 410. This is a longer and more flender bird than the wood buzzard: it weighs about two pounds: the bill is a dark horn colour: eyes bright yellow: head partly grey: upper parts of the body deep brown: throat and part of the neck yellowifti white, ftreaked with narrow lines of brown: lower part of the neck reddifh brown: bread: and belly eroded with alternate bars of red, brown, and white: tail dull brown, marked with a bar of dull black near the end, and a fecond of the fame about the middle: legs fhort, ftout, and of a dull yellow. This fpecies is not very common in England. It is faid to feed on lizards, mice, frogs, &c. and to run on the ground, like a hen, in queft of food; alfo to be deftru&ive to the combs of wafps and bees, for the fake of the honey. Mr. Willughby fays, that this bird builds its neft with fmall twigs, which it covers with wool, feldom laying more than two eggs: and as he found the combs of wafps and bees in the neft, he gave this fpecies the name of honey buzzard. For the figure of the egg, fee PI. II. No. 2.