FALCON. 263 



chocolate and cream-colour. These last may probably differ in age 

 or sex. 



Inhabits North America. 



aOS.—BROAD-WINGED FALCON. 



Falco pensylvanicus, Broad-winged Hawk. Amer. Orn. vi. pi. 54. f. 1. 



LENGTH 14 in. Extent of wing, 33 in. Bill black, slightly 

 toothed, near the base blue ; cere and corners of the mouth yellow ; 

 irides bright amber ; frontlet and lores white ; from the mouth back- 

 wards, runs a streak of blackish brown ; uipper parts dark brown, 

 the plumage tipped, and the head streaked with whitish ; and almost 

 all the feathers spotted or barred with white, but not seen, unless they 

 are separated by the hand ; head large, broad and flat ; cere 

 broad ; nostrils large ; tail short ; the exterior and interior feathers 

 somewhat the shortest ; colour black, crossed with two bars of 

 white ; tipped also slightly with whitish ; tail coverts spotted with 

 white ; wings dusky brown, indistinctly barred with black ; greater 

 parts of the vanes snowy ; lesser coverts and upper parts of the back, 

 tipped and streaked bright ferruginous ; breast and sides elegantly 

 marked with spots of brown, in the shape of arrow heads, centeretl 

 with pale brown ; belly and vent white, like the breast, but more 

 thinly marked with pointed spots of brown ; vent white ; legs very 

 stout, coarsely scaled; colour dirty orange yellow; claws strong, 

 sharp, the hind one considerably the largest. 



Inhabits America; shot the 6th of May, in Mr. Bartram's 



