MARSH HAWK 



Young. Resembling adults but sides of head 

 to cheeks, and neck all around streaked brown 

 and yellowish buff, the top of the head brown 

 spotted with yellowish buff; a brown patch on 

 ear coverts, cheeks yellowish white deepening 

 to straw color on under parts and streaked with 

 brown on chest and breast, under wing coverts 

 barred with brown. Two tufts on back of head. 



A small, common South American hawk, slug- 

 gish and rather tame and stupid. A scavenger. 

 Very common on various islands in Panama 

 Bay; a nest located on the island of Pedro Go* 

 zales in a rather low tree in March 1926, a female - 

 sitting on the nest. In the same tree were two 

 or three pelicans, also nesting. One of these 

 hawks was observed on several occasions sitting 

 motionless on the rocks at low tide on the same 

 island. It is primarily an open country or 

 savannah species, and does not occur in the 

 forest. 



3. Circus hudsonius (Linnaeus) 

 Marsh Hawk 



Male. Length 480 mm. (19.00 in.); tail 230 

 mm. (9.00 in.). Above bluish gray, the top of 

 the head streaked with whitish and tinged with 

 rusty; upper tail coverts white; tail more ashen 

 gray barred with blackish and narrowly tipped 

 with white; breast pearl gray; abdomen white 

 spotted or barred with rufus; under surface of 

 wings white, a few rusty bars on under wing 

 coverts, quills terminated with black. 

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