64 Dr, A* Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



F. buteoides. Short winged buzzard. 

 F. buteo of Pennant! 



v.s.p. ET V. Bill and claws black ; tarsi yellow ; irides (" dark 

 brown," Nuttall,) bright yellow ; eggs 2 to 4 whitish, waved 

 with green and spotted yellowish. 



Dorsal aspect. Feathers of the head, neck, and dorsal regions 

 blackish brown edged with ferruginous, least so on the back and 

 head, and broadly so on the neck ; scapulars brown, with indica. 

 tions of white bars on the inner vanes below the surface ; a ferru. 

 ginous tint predominating on the outer vanes, and a white on 

 the inner vanes ; wing coverts ferruginous brown, tipped with 

 ferruginous white, and indications of white bars on the inner 

 vanes of the greater coverts ; rump brown ; tail coverts, centre 

 ones white on the outer vanes, barred with white on the inner 

 vanes, on a blackish 'brown ground, and tipped with white; tail 

 round, ferruginous near the base, soon changing to a pale 

 brown, tipped with soiled white, and with 9 to 11 bars of dark 

 blackish brown. Primaries clove brown ; the quill halves of 

 inner vanes ferruginous white, spotted with clove brown spots ; 

 the ferruginous white continued to the outer vane of the 2nd, 

 3rd, 4th and 5th ; secondaries paler brown, with half of the 

 inner vanes white barred with the brown. 



Ventral aspect. Chin, throat, breast, belly, tail and wing co- 

 verts white, tinged with ferruginous, with oval and oblanceolate 

 brown spots at the end of each feather ; vent ferruginous white \ 

 femorals the same colour with a lanceolate spot of brown. 



Legs long, feathered for one-third their length, scutellated on the 

 remaining portion. 4th primary longest; 3rd a little shorter 

 than 5th ; 2nd about 4 lines longer than 6th ; 1st and 8th equal. 

 F. borealis. Red tailed hawk. 

 F. levorianus young bird. 

 Buteo (Poecilopternis) borealis. Gmelin 1 Vieill. I Baird ! 



D.c. " Bill greyish black ; cere, sides of the mouth, and tarsi yel- 

 low ; upper parts dark brown touched with ferruginous ; scapu- 

 lars barred beneath the surface ; the lateral tail coverts white, 

 barred with rusty ; middle ones dark ; tail rounded, extending 

 two inches beyond the wings, of a reddish brown or brick colour, 

 with a single band of black near the end, and tipped with brown- 

 ish white; the breast rust coloured, streaked with dark brown ; 

 chin white ; vent and femorals pale ochreous, the latter with a 

 few small heart shaped spots of brown ; iris yellow. Length 22 



