278 FALCON. 



233.— PIGEON-HAWK. 



Falco columbariiis, Ind. Om. i. p. 44. Lin. i. 128. Gm. Lin. i. 281. Phil. Trans. 



Ixii. 382. Fr. Jmer. p. 9. Klein. Av. f. 51. B artr. Trav. 2S6. Baud. u. p. 83. 



Shaw's Zool.vu. 189. Amer.Orn.n. pi. 15. f. 3. 

 Accipiter carolinensis, BiiJ'.'i. 378. 7<i. 8vo. 110. 



Tinnunculus columbarius, Cresserelle des Pigeons, Vieill. Am. i. p. 39. pl.il. 

 Epervier des Pigeons, Buf. i. 238. 

 Pigeon-Hawk, Gen. Syn, i. 101. Id. Sup. 27. Cafe*. Car. i. pi. 3. Arct. Zool. ii. 



No. 111. 



LENGTH lOJ in. ; breadth 22J inches ; weight 6J ounces. Bill 

 whitish, with a black tip ; cere and irides luteous ; head, and all 

 the upper parts brown ; throat, and all beneath yellowish white, 

 streaked with brown ; tail crossed with four narrow, darker bands ; 

 legs yellow, claws black. From the description of one sent to me 

 by Mr. Abbot, of Georgia, I learn that the margins of the brown 

 feathers are rufous, and a pale whitish sti'eak passes over the eye to the 

 nape ; that the tail is long, and the wings do not reach much beyond 

 the base of it; the length of this last bird t6f in. and the breadth 29. 



My late friend Mr. Hutchins informed me, that it comes into 

 Hudson's Bay in May, and breeds there, making the nest of sticks 

 and grass, lined with feathers, either in the hollow of a rock, or tree, 

 and lays from two to four white eggs, thinly spotted with red ; the 

 young fly in August, and early in the following month it retires 

 again southward ; it preys there on small birds, and is known by the 

 name of Pecusish. 



Mr. Abbot speaks of it as common, and that it is the greatest 

 enemy of all the Hawks to poultry, more especially in autumn. 

 He observes, too, that at first sight it has much the air of the 

 Ringtail, but the rump is not white ; it goes by the name of Hen- 

 Hawk, or Chicken-Hawk, about his neighbourhood. 



