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nuchal band, white; entire under parts mottled with white and light ashy-brown; 
every feather with a longitudinal line of dark-brown on its shaft, and with numerous 
irregular and imperfect transverse lines or narrow stripes of light ashy-brown, more 
distinct and regular on the abdomen afd tibiz; quills brown, with bands of a deeper 
shade of the same color, and of ashy-white on their inner webs; tail same color as 
other upper parts; under surface very pale, nearly white, and having about four 
obscure bands of a deeper shade of ashy-brown, and narrowly tipped with white ; 
under tail coverts white. 
Young. —Entire upper parts, including head, dark-brown, with the feathers, 
especially on the head and neck behind, edged and spotted with light-reddish, or 
nearly white; tail light-ashy, with about five wide and conspicuous bands of ashy- 
brown, and narrowly tipped with ashy-white; quills brown, with wide bars of a 
darker shade of the same color, and wide bands of reddish-white on their inner 
webs; under parts white, generally tinged with yellowish, and frequently with red- 
dish; every feather with a longitudinal stripe terminating in an ovate spot of brown; 
sides and tibie frequently with circular and lanceolate spots and irregular bands 
of the same color, the tibiz generally very conspicuously marked in this manner; 
under tail coverts white, with a few large lanceolate spots of brown. 
“ Adult. — Bill black, light-blue at the base; cere greenish-yellow; eyebrow 
greenish-blue; iris reddish-orange; feet yellow. 
“ Young. —Bill as in the adult; iris light-yellow; feet greenish-yellow.” — 
AUDUBON. 
Total length, female, twenty-two to twenty-four inches; wing about fourteen; 
tail, ten and a half to eleven inches. Male, about twenty inches; wing, twelve and 
a half; tail, nine and a half inches. 
This handsome hawk is a not very common winter visitor 
in the New-England States; at least, such is my observa- 
tion, which is corroborated by many others, although Mr. 
Verrill, in his catalogue of the birds of Maine,! says it is 
common, and that it breeds there. I have never met with 
a nest of this species, and have no authentic specimen of 
its egg in my collection. In 1864, a gentleman brought 
me two eggs that he found in a large hawk’s nest in 
Woburn, Mass. He described the hawk, which he killed, 
and which corresponded pretty closely with that of this bird. 
I showed him mounted specimens of the Goshawk, and he 
thought them identical with his bird. As there was still a 
doubt concerning the identity of the eggs, I did not label 
them as of this species, and for the same reason wil] not 
figure them in this work. So far as description goes, they 
are almost exactly like the eggs of the Red-tailed Hawk 
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