38 HARLAN'S BUZZARD. 



brown; larger lighter brown, tipped with white. Primary quills blackish- 

 brown; secondaries lighter, tipped with brownish-white; all barred with 

 blackish. Upper tail-coverts whitish, barred with brown, and yellowish-red 

 in the middle. Tail bright yellowish-red, tipped with whitish, and having a 

 narrow bar of black near the end. Lower parts brownish-white; the fore 

 part of the breast and neck light yellowish-red, the former marked with 

 guttiform, somewhat sagittate brown spots: abdomen and chin white; feathers 

 of the leg and tarsus pale reddish-yellow, those on the outside indistinctly 

 spotted. 



Length 20^ inches; extent of wings 46; bill along the back 1^, along the 

 gap 2; tarsus 3^, middle toe 2f. Wings when closed reaching to within two 

 inches of the tip of the tail. 



Adult Female. 



The female, which is considerably larger, agrees with the male in the 

 general distribution of its colouring. The upper parts are darker, and the 

 under parts nearly white, there being only a few narrow streaks on the sides 

 of the breast; the tibial and tarsal feathers as in the male. The tail is of a 

 duller red, and wants the black bar. 



Length 24 inches. 



HARLAN'S BUZZARD. 



Buteo Harlaxi, Aud. 

 PLATE VIII.— Male and Female. 



Long before I discovered this fine Hawk, I was anxious to have an oppor- 

 tunity of honouring some new species of the feathered tribe with the name 

 of my excellent friend Dr. Richard Harlan, of Philadelphia. This I might 

 have done sooner, had I not waited until a species should occur, which in its 

 size and importance should bear some proportion to my gratitude toward 

 that learned and accomplished friend. 



The Hawks now before you were discovered near St. Francisville, in 

 Louisiana, during my late sojourn in that State, and had bred in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the place where I procured them, for two seasons, although they 

 had always eluded my search, until, at last, as I was crossing a large cotton 

 field, one afternoon, I saw the female represented in the Plate standing 



