SPECIES 7. FrfLCO ATRICAPILLUS* 



ASH-COLOURED, OR BLACK-CAP HAWK. 



[Plate LIL -Fig. 3.] 



PEALE'S Museum, .No. 406. 



OF this beautiful species I can find no precise description. 

 The Ash-coloured Buzzard of Edwards differs so much from 

 this, particularly in wanting the fine zig-zag lines below, and 

 the black cap, that I cannot for a moment suppose them to be 

 the same. The individual from which the drawing was made, 

 is faithfully represented in the plate, reduced to one half its na- 

 tural dimensions. This bird was shot within a few miles of 

 Philadelphia, and is now preserved, in good order, in Peale's 

 museum. 



Its general make and aspect denote great strength and spirit; 

 its legs are strong, and its claws of more than proportionate 

 size. Should any other specimen or variety of this Hawk, dif- 

 fering from the present, occur during the publication of this 

 work, it will enable me more accurately to designate the spe- 

 cies. 



The Black-cap Hawk is twenty-one inches in length; the bill 

 and cere are blue; eye reddish amber; crown black, bordered 

 on each side by a line of white, finely specked with black; these 

 lines of white meet on the hind-head; whole upper parts slate, 



* Falco Palumbarius, LINN. As was suspected by Wilson, this is not a new 

 species, but the celebrated Goshawk. The following synonymes are given 

 by Prince Musignano: Falco Co/winbarttw, GMEL. Syst. i, p. 281. LATH. 

 TEMM. F.gentilis, LINN. GMEL. Syst.t, p. 270. LATH, (young) JP. gallina- 

 riiM. LINN. LATH, (very young female.) L'^utour, BUFF. PI. Enl. 418. (adult) 

 L'wflutotir sor*, BUFF. PI. Enl. 461. (young.) Le Buzard, BUFF. PI. Enl. 423. 

 (very young female. ) See Journal. Acad. Nat. Sc. in, p. 346. 



