HO MARSH HAWK. 



their depredations. The planters consider one Marsh Hawk to be equal to 

 several Negroes for alarming the Rice Birds." Now, good reader, my friend 

 John Bachman, who has resided more than twenty years in South Carolina, 

 and who is a constant student of nature, and perhaps more especially atten- 

 tive to the habits of birds, informs me that the Marsh Hawk is proportionally 

 rare in that State, and that it only makes its appearance there after the Rice 

 Birds have left the country for the south, and retires at the approach of 

 spring, before they have arrived. 



Marsh Hawk, Falco uliginosus, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. vi. p. 67. Young Female. 

 Falco cyaneus, Bonap. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. 30. 

 Hen-Harrier or Marsh Hawk, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 109. 

 Marsh Hawk, Falco cyaneus, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iv. p. 396. 



Buteo (Circus) cyaneus? var? Americanus, American Hen-Harrier, Swains, and Rich. 

 F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 55. 



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 Adult male, light ash-grey; abdomen, tail-coverts, lower wing-coverts, 

 inner webs of secondary quills and tail-feathers white, primaries black toward 

 the end. Female, umber-brown above, head, hind neck and scapulars streaked 

 with light red; tail-coverts white; tail banded with light red; lower parts 

 light yellowish-red, the neck streaked with brown. Young like the female, 

 but lighter. 



Male, 19f, 44. Female, 20^, 46f. 



