590 ORNIXnOLOGY. 



of the lower mandible, and on tbc base of the n])pcr, below the cere; cere and rictus, 

 light yellowish-green; naked eyebrow, plumbeous; iris, deep light-hazel; toes, pure 

 light lemoayellow ; claws, deep black. 



Archibuteo FEREUGINEUS. 



Squig'i'el Hawk. 



Buteo fcrrugincus, LicnT., Tr. Berlin Acad., 183S, 429. 



Archibuteo ferrugiiieus, Gkay, Genera of Birds, , — , i)l. vi (name A. regalis 



on plate).— Cassin, Baird's Birds N. Am., 1858, 34.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. 



Birds, 1859, No. 32.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 482.— CouES, Key, 1872, 



218 ; Check List, 1873, No. 357 ; Birds N.W., 1874, 3G3.— B. B. & li., Uist. 



N. Am. Birds, III, 1874, 300— Henshaw, 1875, 42.5. 



This mag-nificent Hawk, which Dr. Coues justly calls the "handsomest 

 of the North American Falconidtc," was much less frequently seen than its 

 relative, the common Rough-leg {A. sancti-johannis). The few observed 

 were sailing majestically overhead, describing broad circles, and resembling 

 the Golden Eagle in tlie manner of their flight. At such times it may bo 

 immediately distinguished from A. sanct'i-johannis hj the snowy white of 

 its lower plumage, which, as seen from below, is the predominating color 

 of the bird. 



Aquila ohrysaetos. 



/?. canadensis. 



{Poh-tahl' -ing-cliJc of the Washoes ; Queh-nah' of the Paiutes ; Gueh'-nah of 



the Shoshones.) 



Falco canadensis, LiNN., Syst. Nat., I, 175S, 88. 



Aquila canadensis, Cassin, Baird's Birds N. Am., 1858, 41.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. 



Birds, 1859, No. 39.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 449. 

 Aquila chrysaetos xar. canadensis, Ridgway, B. B. & R., Uist. N. Am. B., Ill, 



1874, 311.— Henshaw, 1875, 420. 

 Aquila chrysaetos, CoUES, Key, 1872, 219; Check List, 1873, No. 3GI; Birds N.W., 



1874, 368. 



The magnificent Golden Eagle is an almost daily sight in the mount- 

 ain-regions of the Interior. At Carson City we scarcely ever went among 

 the hills without seeing it, soaring about, generally in pairs, overhead. We 

 first met with it in July, 1867, near the summit of the w^estern slope of tlie 



