HAWK OWL. 551 
The specimens from which the figures in the plate were drawn, 
were given to me by T'Homas Maccviocy, lsq. of Pictou, who had a 
good number of them. ‘Two entire individuals preserved in spirits af- 
ford materials for the following descriptions. 
Srrix runEREA, Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 133.—Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. i. p. 62.—Ch. 
Bonaparte, Synopsis of Birds of United States, p. 39. 
Hawk Owt, Srrix nupsonia, Wils. Amer. Ornith. vol. vi. p. 64, pl. 50, fig. 6. 
Strix FuUNEREA, American Hawk Ow1t, Richards. and Swains. Fauna Bor.-Amer. 
vol. 11. p. 92. 
Hawx Ow1, WVutiall, Manual, vol. i. p. 115. 
Adult Male. Plate CCCLXXVIII. Fig. 1. 
Bill short, strong, higher than broad; upper mandible with the 
dorsal line declinate and decurvate, the ridge convex, the sides convex 
toward the end, the edges nearly straight until toward the end, the tip 
decurvate, trigonal, acute ; the cere covered with stiff bristly feathers 
directed forwards ; lower mandible with the angle very wide, the dorsal 
outline convex, the ridge broad and convex, the sides convex, the edges 
sharp toward the end, the tip obtuse, thin-edged. Nostrils roundish, 
in the fore part of the cere, concealed by the feathers. 
Head very large, roundish, convex above. Eyes very large. Neck 
very short ; body of moderate size. Legs very short, robust; tarsus 
very short, feathered, as are the toes, of which the outer is reversible ; 
claws long, stout, compressed, tapering to a very acute point, that of 
third toe with the inner edge considerably dilated. 
Plumage full, very soft, blended ; the cere covered with slender 
stiffish reversed feathers, having their filaments disunited ; the facial 
disks incomplete above. Wings rather long, rounded; the third pri- 
mary longest, the fourth one-twelfth and a half shorter, the second 
four and a half twelfths shorter than the third, the first intermediate be- 
tween the fifth and sixth; the first four cut out on the outer web towards 
thesend, the barbs on the greater part of the outer web of the first, 
and the terminal portion of the second, thickened, and a little separated, 
but not recurved ; the secondaries of moderate length, rounded. Tail 
rather long, much rounded, of twelve rather broad rounded feathers, of 
which the lateral are two inches shorter than the middle. 
Bill pale yellow ; iris bright yellow; claws dusky. ‘The facial disk 
