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SPECIES SEEN WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE UNITED 



STATES, BUT NOT CHARACTERIZED. 



BACHMAN'S HAWK. Falco Bjchmanii. 



I HAVE several times seen in South. Carolina a Hawk flying, equal 

 in size to Falco lineatus, and remarkable for the great breadth of its 

 wings. It was of a uniform brown colour, excepting the tail, which 

 was barred with white. The same bird has also been repeatedly ob- 

 served by my friend Dr Bachman, who feels assured of its being dis- 

 tinct from any other Hawk hitherto found in North America. 



FORK-TAILED OWL. Strjx forficata. 



I shot this bird in the vicinity of Green Bay, when on my way 

 across to the Mississippi ; but the drawing which I made of it on the 

 spot has been lost. It was about the size of Strix acadica, of a dark 

 grey colour, with the tail long and deeply forked ; but I am unable to 

 describe it more particularly, the Journal in which it was noticed ha- 

 ving been, along with others, destroyed by the great fire which hap- 

 pened in New York some years ago. 



BROWN IBIS. Tantalus Fuscus. 



Two specimens, apparently male and female, of this large Ibis were 

 shot by me on the Bayou leading from the Silver Springs to the 

 St John's River in Florida. I was at the time along with Colonel 

 John Rees in his boat, with two Negroes, but although we exerted 

 ourselves to the utmost for the space of an hour, we were unable to get 

 at them, on account of the great depth and peculiar nature of the mud 

 on which they were. This species is little inferior in size to the Com- 

 mon Wood Ibis, Tantalus Loculator, and appeared to be of a uniform 

 deep chocolate-brown, with the bill deep blue, and the legs greyish-blue. 

 The Tantalus fuscus of the Prince of Musignano is not this species, 

 although I have frequently spoken of it to him. 



