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wing coverts, and breast, barred with dark brown, spotted with 

 white, but on narrow inspection, each feather is marked with 

 three or foin- alternate bars of brown and white ; the head, neck, 

 and breast, have most white in them ; the other parts abound most 

 in brown ; the greater quills barred with lighter and deeper brown, 

 and on the outer edges of some of them are white, or very pale spots, 

 in place of light brown ; the secondaries alternately banded with 

 paler and deeper brown, the latter occupying most space ; tail 

 banded brown and white, or pale tawny, the tip of the last colour ; 

 belly and vent dirty white, marked with longitudinal rusty brown 

 streaks ; sides barred across with the same ; legs pale, feathered 

 to the claws, which are brown. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay ; the above described from a specimen in 

 my own possession, which measured 21 in. in length ; another in the 

 Leverian collection had the bars of the tail, and the spots on the 

 upper parts of the body more numerous than in my bird. Mr. 

 Abbot acquaints me, that it frequents the swamps, and oak woods 

 about Savannah, in Georgia, and that in general it preys on hares, 

 grouse, mice, &c. but now and then snakes, as he met with it once 

 in the day time, when it had caught a large snake, and eaten the 

 head off, and it was with difficulty, that it flew from tree to tree 

 with it. 



One of these in Mr. Bullock's Museum is said to be British, but 

 we have not met with a second instance of this circumstance. — 

 Found in Sweden and Norway, 



A.— LENGTH 18 or 19in. Bill yellow; head and back brown, 

 with two dun yellow bars on each feather, banded above and below 

 with dusky ; axillary feathers the same, but the bars approaching to 

 white; beneath, as far as the breast, barred much in the same 



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