

RAMBLES IN FLORIDA. 397 
The only resemblance between the adult and young is in 
the general form of the head, bill, legs, and claws. It is no 
wonder that naturalists considered them different species. 
Nuttall described the young as the American Buzzard ( Falco 
Buteo), Pennant as the Great Hen-hawk (Buteo vulgaris), 
and Wilson named it the Falco Zeverianus. He says, 
however, “it is with some doubt and hesitation that I intro- 
duce the present as a distinct species from the Buteo borea- 
lis. My reason for inclining to consider this a distinct 
species is the circumstance of having uniformly found the 
present (Falco Leverianus), two or three inches larger than 
the former (B. borealis). 
Ornithologists at that time were not generally aware that 
the young of many of our birds of prey were longer than 
the adult. This is very marked in the Goshawk. and Bald 
Eagle. This seeming absurdity is easily explained. After 
moulting the long feathers never attain their former length. 
If Wilson had been aware of this fact he never would have 
introduced the young of the Buteo borealis as a distinct 
species, 

RAMBLES IN FLORIDA. 
BY R. E. C. STEARNS. 

PART III. 
From Cedar Keys to Egmont Key is eighty-five miles. 
The latter is situated at the mouth of Tampa Bay, and is 
forty miles from the town of Tampa; upon it is a light- 
10use whose friendly flame shone far across the waters of 
the Gulf as we steamed along in the early gray of the morn- 
ing. We had arranged to land at Egmont, wind and wave 
permitting, as it is good working ground for the naturalist ; 
but a rough sea compelled a change of plan, and we kept on 
for Tampa. 
