BUTEO PENNSYLVANICUS — BROAD WINGED HAWK. 221 



tree, thereby depriving the little animal of the benefit of 

 running round the trunk. 



In the adult male the bill is blackish ; cere greenish yel- 

 low; feet yellow; claws blackish. Upper part of the head 

 lightish brown, shaded with grey. A band of dark brown 

 from the angle of the mouth backwards; back brown with 

 light shadings. Upper part of the neck yellowish red, with 

 spots ol brown. Tail covers whitish with bars of brown. 

 Tail bright yellowish red, with a narrow bar of black near 

 the tip. On the tail of a specimen in the Museum of the 

 Cleveland Academy, there are the remains of numerous 

 black bars, which coincide with the bars on the tail of the 

 young. On looking closely, these can be distinctly traced. 

 The abdomen and chin are white ; the long featliers of the 

 leg yellowish, with small brown spots. The length is about 

 22 inches; extent of wings 47. The female is larger, and 

 wants the black bar at the end of the tail. 



Specimens of both sexes in the Cleveland Academy's 

 Museum. 



2. BuTEO Pennsylvanicus, Wilso7i. — Broad Winged Hawk. 



Wilson's Amer. Orn., Yl., pi. 54, fig. 1; Audubon's B, of 

 Am., Oct. ed., I., pi. 10; DeKay's Nat. Hist. N. Y. Orn., pi. 

 5, fig. 11. 



Very little seems to be known regarding the habits of 

 this Hawk, although it is of common occurrence in this 

 and neighboring States. All writers agree in describing it 

 as of a mild character, more so than any other species 

 known. It was first described by Wilson, from a specimen 

 shot by him while it was feeding on a meadow mouse. 

 Audubon obtained the individual, Irom which he made his 

 drawing of the female, in its own nest, while sitting on its 



