228 GENUS ASTUR. 



obtained in this country agreeing in every particular with 

 others from Europe, while they also agree with individuals 

 of the preceeding species in immature plumage. If the 

 species are distinct, we may claim this as an Ohio bird, as a 

 specimen now in the Cleveland Academy's Museum was 

 obtained by Prof. Kirtland in that portion of Cleveland 

 formerly Ohio City. This agrees in the most minute partic- 

 ular with descriptions of the European bird, and was labelled 

 A. logopus by him. In habit the present species agrees with 

 A. Sanoti Johannis, and preys on meadow mice, frogs, &c. 

 It cannot be considered an injurious bird, and it should not 

 be killed because it belongs to a bad family. 



In form this is similar to the preceding, and in color 

 almost, if not quite, identical with that of the younger bird. 

 The upper parts are amber brown, with occasional feathers 

 edged with whitish and fulvous, these becoming quite 

 numerous on the head and back part of the neck. A wide 

 band of brownish black across the abdomen. The rest of 

 the lower parts yellowish white with longitudinal lines and 

 spots of brownish black. Quills of the wings ashy brown, 

 with the basal portion of their webs white ; lower side of 

 the tail white, upper white on the basal half, the remainder 

 brown tipped with white ; feathers of the legs pale reddish 

 yellow with longitudinal stripes of brown. 



General size same as preceding species. Inhabits all por- 

 tions of North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific 

 Oceans, and breeds in the fur countries of the North. It is 

 common also in Europe, where its habits are the same as 

 in this country. It nests in low trees and is pretty shy. 



VI. Genus Astur, Lacepede. 



Form strong, but rather slender; bill short, curved, fes- 

 tooned; nostrils large, slightly ovate, inserted in the cere; 



