528 SHARP-SHINNED HAWK. 
each of the scapulars are two large white patches, which, however, are 
not seen until the feathers are raised. The outer primaries are tinged 
with brown; all the quills are marked on the inner web with dusky 
bands, between which the inner margins are white toward the base. 
The tail has four broad bands of blackish-brown, and is tipped with 
greyish-white. The cheeks are yellowish-red, and the forehead is 
tinged with the same colour. The throat is reddish-white ; the lower 
parts are transversely and rather broadly barred with light red and 
white, there being from three to five bars or double spots of the latter 
colour on each feather, those on the sides with the inner web entirely 
red; part of abdomen and lower tail-coverts white ; feathers of the 
legs barred like the breast; lower wing-coverts yellowish-white, barred 
and spotted with dusky. 
Length to end of tail 11} inches; to end of wings 83: to end of 
claws 11}; extent of wings 203; wing from flexure 643; tail 5}$; bill 
along the ridge 7, along the edge of lower mandible 7; tarsus 143 ; 
hind toe #8, its claw .*,; middle toe 1%, its claw #4. Weight 33 oz. 
Adult Female. Plate CCCLXXIV. Fig. 2. 
The female, which greatly exceeds the male in size is generally grey- 
ish-brown tinged with blue on the upper parts, in very old individuals 
bluish-grey or dark bluish-grey, more or less tinged with brown. The 
bill, cere, iris, feet, and claws are as in the male, and the markings on 
the plumage are similar on the upper parts; the lower are generally 
-of a lighter tint, but otherwise nearly the same. 
Length to end of tail 14 inches; extent of wings 26; wing from 
flexure 83%; tail 63%; bill along the ridge 12; tarsus 272; hind toe 74, 
its claw 74; middle toe 143, its claw 3%. Weight of an individual 74 
oz., of another 8. 
Young birds of either sex, when fully fledged, have the upper parts 
generally hair-brown, on the back darker ; the feathers on the head and 
hind neck margined with light red ; those of the rest of the upper parts 
also terminally edged with brownish-red ; the feathers of the hind head 
and neck are white at the base, but to less extent, and the scapulars 
are also spotted with the same. The lower parts are white or yellow- 
ish-white, the throat longitudinally streaked, the rest banded with dark 
brown, the feathers of the sides spotted, those of the legs light reddish, 
obscurely marked with darker along the middle ; the lower tail-coverts 
