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daries broad and rounded ; the first quill two inches and ten 

 twelfths shorter than the second, which is an inch and a twelfth 

 shorter than the third, the fourth slightly longer than the lat- 

 ter ; the first and seventh about equal. The tail is long, broad, 

 slightly rounded and slightly cmarginate. 



The cere and toes are yellow, the superciliary ridge greenish, 

 the iris yellow ; the bill and claws black, greyish-blue at the 

 base. The radiating loral bristles black, their downy base 

 white. The head and neck are yellowish-white, with linear- 

 oblong streaks of umber-brown, the central part of each feather 

 being of that colour ; the back umber-brown tinged with grey, 

 the feathers glossed wnth purplish toward the end, margined 

 with yellowish-white and light reddish-brown, and having 

 their concealed parts white. The edge of the wing is whit- 

 ish, the brown feathers close to it margined with light red ; 

 the quills and larger coverts are brown, the primaries blackish- 

 brown toward the end, the outer webs of the first six tinged 

 with grey, and the base of all white, that colour being apparent 

 on the outer edge of the outer four or five, and extending to 

 the narrowed part of the inner web of all. The upper tail- 

 coverts are white, with a large brown spot near the end ; the 

 tail white for nearly two-thirds from the base, the remaining 

 or terminal part brown, but with a small portion of the tip 

 brownish-white. The ground-colour of the fore-neck and the 

 rest of the lower parts is yellovv'ish-white or pale ochre, the 

 throat with linear, the neck with lanceolate, the breast with 

 obovate brown spots ; but the sides and middle of the breast 

 are brown •-, the abdomen and lower tail-coverts unspotted ; 

 the short plumage of the legs and tarsi reddish-yellow, mottled 

 with dark brown ; the elongated tibial feathers paler, with an 

 oblong brown spot. The lower wing-coverts are yellowish- 

 white, each with a narrow brown mark, but the larger or pri- 

 mary coverts chiefly brown ; almost the whole under surface 

 of the quills white, the attenuated part of the primaries being 

 greyish-black, and the ends of the secondaries pale grey. 



The alimentary canal, as examined in an American speci- 

 men, belonging to INIr Audubon, is in all respects similar to 

 that of the Common Buzzard ; the tongue being ten twelfths of 



