FALCO LINEATUS* 



RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 



[Plate LIIL Fig. 3.] 



Arct. Zool. p. 206, JVb. 1 02. LATH, i, 56, JVo. 36. TURT. Syst, 

 p. 153. PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 205. 



THIS Hawk is more rarely met with than either of those in 

 the same plate. Its haunts are in the neighbourhood of the sea. 

 It preys on Larks, Sandpipers, and the small Ringed Plover, 

 and frequently on Ducks. It flies high and irregularly, and 

 not in the sailing manner of the Long-winged Hawks. I 

 have occasionally observed this bird near Egg-Harbour, in 

 New Jersey; and once in the meadows below this city. This 

 Hawk was first transmitted to Great Britain by Mr. Black- 

 burne, from Long Island, in the state of New York. Of its 

 manner of building, eggs, &c. we are altogether unacquainted. 



The Red-shouldered Hawk is nineteen inches in length; the 

 head and back are brown, seamed and edged with rusty ; bill 

 blue black; cere and legs yellow; greater wing-coverts and se- 

 condaries pale olive brown, thickly spotted on both vanes with 

 white and pale rusty; primaries very dark, nearly black, and 

 barred or spotted with white; tail rounded, reaching about an 

 inch and a half beyond the wings, black, crossed by five bands 

 of white, and broadly tipt with the same; whole breast and bel- 

 ly bright rusty, speckled and spotted with transverse rows of 

 white, the shafts black; chin and cheeks pale brownish, streak- 

 ed also with black; iris reddish hazel; vent pale ochre, tipt with 

 rusty; legs feathered a little below the knees, long; these and 

 the feet a fine yellow; claws black; femorals pale rusty, faintly 

 barred with a darker tint. 



* This is stated by Prince Musignano to be the young' male of the preceding 



species. 



