458 FEMALE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 
It flies high and irregularly, and not in the sailing manner of the Long- 
winged Hawks. I have occasionally observed this bird near Egg 
Harbor, in New Jersey, and once in the ~seadows below this city. 
This Hawk was first transmitted to Great Britain by Mr. Blackburne, 
from Long Island, in the state of New York. With its manner of 
building, eggs, &c., we are altogether unacquainted. 
The Red-shouldered Hawk is nineteen inches in length; the head 
and back are brown, seamed and edged with rusty; bill, blue black ; 
cere and legs, yellow; greater wing-coverts and secondaries, pale 
olive brown, thickly spotted on both vanes with white and pale rusty ; 
primaries, very dark, nearly black, and barred or spotted with white ; 
tail, rounded, reaching about an inch and a half beyond the wings, 
black, crossed by five bands of white, and broadly tipped with the same ; 
whole breast and belly, bright rusty, speckled, and spotted with trans- 
verse rows of white, the shafts black; chin and cheeks, pale brown- 
ish, streaked also with black; iris, reddish hazel; vent, pale ochre, 
tipped with rusty ; legs, feathered a little below the knees, long; these 
and the feet, a fine yellow; claws black; femorals, pale rusty, faintly 
barred with a darker tint. ; : 
In the month of April I shot a female of this species, and the only 
one I have yet met with, in a swamp, seven or eight miles below 
Philadelphia. The eggs were, some of them, nearly as large as 
peas; from which circumstance, I think it probable they breed in such 
solitary parts even in this state. In color, size, and markings, it 
differed very little from the male described above. The tail was 
scarcely quite so black, and the white bars not so pure; it was also 
something larger. 
FEMALE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. — ORIOLUS BALTIMORUS. — 
Fig, 211 
Amer. Orn. vol. i. p. 23. 
ICTERUS BALTIMORE. — Daupin. 
TaMhistory of this beautiful species has been particularly detailed 
in a former part of the present work; to this representation of the 
female, drawn of half the size of nature, a few particulars may be 
is rarely observed in the middle districts, where, on the contrary, the Winter Fal- 
con usually makes its appearance from the north at the approach of autumn. “ It 
is one of the most noisy of its genus, during spring especially, when it would be 
difficult to walk the skirts of woods bordering a large plantation, without hearing 
its discordant shrill notes, ka-hee, ka-hee, as it sails in rapid circles at a very great 
elevation. ‘The interior of the woods’seems the fittest haunts for the Red-shoulder- 
ed Hawk, where they also breed.. The nest is seated near the extremity of a large 
branch, and is as bulky as that of a Common Crow. It is formed externally of dry 
sticks and Spanish ‘moss, and is lined with withered grass and fibrous roots. The 
female lays four cess, sometimes five ; they are of a broad, oval form, grauulated 
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all over, pale blue, faintly blotched with brownish red at the smaller rd.” —Ep. 
