268 FALCON. 



This is found in the same places as the American Buzzard, and 

 the possibiHty of its belonging- to that species is hinted at, from 

 similarity of make and shape ; as to the difference of markings of 

 the tail, it is certainly not more than in the two sexes of our Kestril, 

 or the little Falcon of America : and we know, that the females of 

 the Falcon tribe are ever larger than the males ; but we are more 

 certain, that it is not the Leverian Falcon, which Mr. Wilson has 

 <|uoted with a doubt, that being allied to the Osprey, as before 

 mentioned by us, under that head. 



211.— BARRED-BREASTED BUZZARD. 



Faleo lineatus, Ind. Oni.i. 27. Gm.Lin.i. 268. Daud.'u. 158. Shaw's ZooLvii, 



p. n.3. 



Red-shouldered Falcon, Arct. Zool.n, No. 102. Am. Oni. vi, pL53. f . 3, 

 Barred-breasted Buzzard, Gen.Spi.i. p.5G. 



SIZE of our Buzzard ; length 20 in. Bill blue, cere yellow; 

 plumage above deep brown, margined with ferruginous ; chin the 

 same, but paler ; lesser wing coverts ferruginous, spotted black ; the 

 greater margined with white on iDoth webs, except for one inch or 

 more at the ends ; tail rather short, deep brown, with three narrow 

 dirty white bars, and one near the base ; the end also is dirty white ; 

 fore part of the neck and breast rufous, shafts of the feathers black ; 

 on the breast and belly interrupted bars of whitish, and pale 

 ferruginous mixed ; thighs and vent dirty white, the first plain, the 

 latter barred obscurely with brown ; legs strong, yellow ; claws black. 



Inhabits ISorth America ; by some called Goshawk. 



