466 



PREYING BIRDS — RAPTORES. 



obtained a specimen in this State. It may pvi_>\'e, ho-\vevev, tliat tlie liird 

 cannot be separated specifically from Coojicrii. As it could not be dis- 

 tinguished in a cut, we do not give a figure of it. 



Accipiter fuscus, Gmelin. 



THE SHAEP-SHINNED HAWK. 



Fako fuscus and Fako dubius, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I. 1788, 280, 281. 



Fiiko velox and Fako Pennsylvankus (in part), Wilson, Am. Orn. V. IIG ; pi. 45, f. 1 : VI. 

 13 ; pl. 46, f. 1. 



Astur fuscus, Audubon, Birds Amcr. pl. 3T4 : oct. cd. pl. 2.5. — Nuttall, Man. I. 9n. — 

 Accipiter /"mschs, Bonaparte, Conip. List, 5. — Cassin, P. R. Rep. Birds, IX. 18. — 

 Cooper and Suckley, XII. ii. Zool of W. T. 146 — Coues, Pr. A. N. Se. 1866, 4.3. 



Sp. Ch.\r. Very similar to A. Mcxicanu!!, hnt smaller ; above colored like A. Cooperii ; 

 tail more brownish ; under parts similar ; secondary and tertiary quills with large partially 

 concealed spots of white. 



you)!!/, brown, darker than that of ^. Cooperii; beneath with longitudinal, ovate, and 



A. fuseus. 



circular spots of reddish-brown, becoming transverse bands on flaidcs and tibia?; under tail 

 coverts wdiitc ; otherwise as in preceding. 



Lenirth, 10.00 to 14.00 ; extent, 20.00 to 25 00 ; wing. G.OO to G.50 ; tail, 5.00 to 5.50. 



Hnh. Throughout North America and south to Panama. 



