106 BIRDS OF PREY. 



appear to be all that were known to Wilson of this 

 species. 



The Buzzardet, of Pennant, No. 109, vol. i. p. 245, 

 described from a specimen in the Leverian Museum, is 

 doubtless this species. 



The length of this specimen (a, male) was 14 inches (according 

 to Pennant, 15 inches), extent 33. Bill black, bluish near the base, 

 slightly toothed ; cere and corners of the mouth yellow. Irids am- 

 ber color. Frontlet and lores white. From the mouth backwards 

 runs a patch of blackish brown. Upper parts dark brown, beneath 

 the surface spotted and barred with Avhite. Head large, broad, 

 and flat, streaked with whitish. Tail short, the exterior and inte- 

 rior feathers somewhat shorter ; tail coverts spotted with white. 

 Wings dusky brown, obscurely barred with black ; most of the inner 

 vanes partly white ; lining of the wing brownish- white, marked 

 with small arrow-heads of brown. Chin white, surrounded with 

 streaks of black. Belly and vent, like the breast, white, but more 

 thinly marked with pointed spots of brown. Femorals pale brownish 

 white, thickly marked with small touches of brown and white. 

 Legs stout ; feet coarsely scaled, both of a dirty orange yellow. — 

 Female, much larger, lighter colored over the eye, being rufous- 

 white with minute spots ; femorals and beneath the wing marked 

 with cordate spots. Beneath rufous-white with oblong dusky -brown 

 spots. Belly and rump the same color, but spotless- 



WINTER FALCON, or RED-SHOULDERED 



HAWK. 



(Falco hyemalis, Gmel. Audubon, pi. 71. Wilson, Am. Orn. iv. 

 p. 73. pi. 35. fig. 1. [adult male] and Red-shouldered Hawk ? 

 F. lineatus, id. G. p. 86. pi. 53. fig. 3. [young male.] Audubon, 

 pi. Philad. Museum, 205, 272, and 273.) 



Spec. Charact. — Brownish, varied with white and ferruginous; 

 tail always banded, extending considerably beyond the closed 

 wings. — jidult , hrown ; beneath, head, neck, and tail coverts 

 white, spotted longitudinally with brown ; tail with 8 or 9 bands 

 of dark and light brown. — Voimg, brown and ferruginous, be- 

 neath rusty, slightly varied with faint bars ; wings dusky and 

 barred ; tail black, crossed and tipped with 5 bands of white. 



