I'lGEUN HAWK. 

 Palco columbarius. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Adult Male. -Entire upper parts bluish-slate color, every 

 leather with a black longitudinal line; forehead and throat 

 white; other under parts pale yellowish or reddish white; every 

 leather with a longitudinal line of brownish-black; tibiae light 

 lerruginous, with lines of black; quills black, tipped with ashy- 

 white; tail light bluish-ashy, lipped with a white and with a 

 wide subtermlnal band of black, and with several other trans- 

 verse narrower bands of black; inner webs nearly white; cere 

 and legs yellow; bill blue; iris brown. 



Younper — Entire upper plumage dusky brown, quite light In 

 some specimens, and with a tinge of ashy; head above, with 

 narrow stripes of dark brown and ferruginous, and in some 

 specimens many irregular spots and edgings of the latter color 

 .in the upper parts; forehead and entire under part dull white. 

 me latter wiln lungiluUinal stripes ot light brown; sides and 

 rlanks light brown; tibia dull white with dashes of brown; 

 pairs of circular spots of white; tail pale brown, with about 

 six transverse bands of white; cere and legs greenish-yellow. 



Young. — tipper plumage brownish-black, white of the fore- 

 head and under parts more deeply tinged with reddish-yellow; 

 lark stiipos wider than in preceding; sides and flanks with 

 wide transverse bands of brownish-black, and with circular 

 spots of yellowish-white; quills black; tail brownish-black, 

 lipped with white, and with about tour bands of wliite; cere 

 .md feet greenish-yellow. 



Total length, female i2 to H inches; wing 8 to 9 Inches; tail 

 ."i to 5% inches. Male, total length, 10 to 11 Inches; wing 

 :Vi to 8 Inches: tail 5 inches.— Baird's B. B. of N. A. 



JIabitat.— The whole of North America, south to the West 

 Inuies and northern SnuUi America. 



This little falcon breeds chielly iKirlh of parallel 43 

 (lejirees, though, as Dr. Fislier adds, "in the mountains 

 it extends south of this latitude, and in the mountains 

 of Some of the West Indian Islands it is a summer 

 resident." T have observed this hawk only as a visitor 

 (Inrini; the winter season: further investigations, how- 

 ever, may show that it. as some assert, occurs as a 

 native in some of our higher mountainous districts. 

 .\ccording In my ixperience this species is rather rare 



