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452 AMERICAN BUZZARD, CR WHITE-BREASTED HAWK. 
tail, rounded, extending two inches : eyond the wings, and of a bright 
red brown, with a single band of black near the end, and tipped with 
brownish white; on some of the lateral feathers are slight indica- 
tions of the remains of other narrow bars; lower parts, brownish 
white; the breast, ferruginous, streaked with dark brown; across the 
belly, a band of interrupted spots of brown; chin, white ; femorals 
and vent, pale brownish white the former marked with a few minute 
heart-shaped spots of brown; legs, yellow, feathered half way below 
the knees. qa 
This was a male. Another specimen, shot within a few days after, 
agreed, in almost every particular of its color and markings, with the 
present ; and, on dissection, was found to be a female. ° 
AMERICAN BUZZARD, OR WHITE-BREASTED HAWK.— 
FALCO LEVERIANUS ? — Fie. 206. 
Lath. Syn. Sup. p. 31.— Ind. Orn. i. p. 18, No. 31.— Peale’s Museum, No. 400. 
BUTEO BOREALIS.—youNnG oF THE YEAR. — BONAPARTE. 
Falco (sub-genus Buteo) borealis, Bonap. Synop. p. 32. 
Ir is with some doubt and hesitation that I introduce the present as 
a distinct species from the preceding. In their size and general as- 
pect they resemble each other considerably ; yet I have found both 
males and females among each; and in the present species I have 
sometimes found the ground color of the tail strongly tinged with fer- 
ruginous, and the bars of dusky but slight; while in the preceding 
the tail is sometimes wholly red brown, the single bar of black near 
the tip excepted; in other specimens evident remains of numerous 
other bars are visible. In the mean time, both are figured, and future 
observations may throw more light on the matter. 
This bird is more numerous than the last; but frequents the same 
situations in winter. One, which was shot on the wing, lived with me 
several weeks; but refused to eat. It amused itself’ by frequently 
hopping from one end of the room to the other ; and sitting for hours at 
the window, looking down on the passengers below. At first, when 
approached by any person, he generally put himself in the position 
in which he is represented ; but after some time he became quite fa- 
miliar, permitting himself to be handled, and shutting his eyes, as if 
quite passive. Though he lived so long without food, he was found 
on dissection to be exceedingly fat, his stomach being enveloped in a 
mass of solid fat of nearly an inch in thickness. 
The White-breasted Hawk is twenty-two inches long, and four feet : 
in extent; cere, pale green; bill, pale blue, black at the point; eye, 
bright straw color ; eyebrow, projecting greatly ; head, broad, flat, and 
large ; upper part of the head, sides of the neck and back, brown, 
streaked and seamed with white and some pale rust; scapulars and 
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