104 BLACK HAWK. 



dashed with dirty white; nape of the neck pure white under 

 the surface; front white; whole lower parts black, with slight 

 tinges of brown, and a few circular touches of the same on the 

 femorals; legs feathered to the toes, and black, touched with 

 brownish; the wings reach rather beyond the tip of the tail; the 

 five first primaries are white on their inner vanes; tail rounded 

 at the end, deep black, crossed with five narrow bands of pure 

 white, and broadly tipt with dull white; vent black, spotted 

 with white; inside vanes of the primaries snowy; claws black, 

 strong and sharp; toes remarkably short. 



I strongly suspect this bird to be of the very same species 

 with the next, though both were found to be males. Although 

 differing greatly in plumage, yet in all their characteristic fea- 

 tures they strikingly resemble each other. The Chocolate- 

 coloured Falcon of Pennant, and St. John's Falcon of the 

 same author, (Arct. Zool. No. 93 and 94,) are doubtless varie- 

 ties of this; and very probably his Rough-legged Falcon also. 

 His figures, however, are bad, and ill calculated to exhibit the 

 true form and appearance of the bird. 



This species is a native of North America alone. We have 

 no account of its ever having been seen in any part of Europe; 

 nor have we any account of its place, or manner, of breeding. 



