I48 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 



longest, first and fourth of equal length. Closed wings, 

 one inch and a fourth shorter than the tail. 



Head, reddish brown, streaked with darker brown or 

 dusky black. Upper parts, of the same colour, each 

 feather having a black central line and dark margin. 



Tail of twelve feathers, showing four bands of dull white, 

 and tipped with the same, the bars of the two centre feathers 

 less distinct than those on the lateral ones. 



Wings, same colour as the upper plumage. Primaries 

 and secondaries, marked with round spots of reddish white. 

 Lower parts, dull yellowish white, streaked laterally on the 

 breast and sides with large dark brown spots. 



Femoral or thigh feathers, very long, tinged with pale 

 red, and streaked longitudinally with dark brown. Throat, 

 white. Under side of the wings, lightly reddish brown, 

 thickly studded with round spots of dull white. Primaries 

 and secondaries beautifully barred with numerous spots of 

 the same colour. 



I consider this to be a young male specimen, and have 

 been careful in noting these particulars, with the view of 

 comparing hereafter with those of the female Sparrow 

 Hawk (Falco sparverius of Audubon), so exactly the 

 dimensions of the present species, and so similar in many 

 other respects. 



January 16th. — Mr. Wedderburn informs me that he 

 flushed two Snipes in the Governor's Marsh to-day. 



January 17th. — Receive accounts, almost daily, of the 

 continued depredations of a large Hawk in this neighbour- 

 hood. On Sunday he attacked a brood of young ducks, 

 near the Parade Ground of Hamilton, three of which he is 

 said to have carried off during the course of that day, and 

 to have killed a fourth, which he was compelled to drop. 



