RED-TAILED HAWK. 285 



very clamorous, making an incessant squealing noise. One, 

 which I shot, contained in its stomach mingled fragments of 

 frogs and lizards. 



The red-tailed hawk is twenty inches long, and three feet 

 nine inches in extent ; bill, blue black ; cere, and sides of the 

 mouth, yellow, tinged with green ; lores, and spot on the under 

 eyelid, white, the former marked with fine radiating hairs ; 

 eyebrow, or cartilage, a dull eel-skin colour, prominent, pro- 

 jecting over the eye ; a broad streak of dark brown extends 

 from the sides of the mouth backwards ; crown and hind head, 

 dark brown, seamed with white and ferruginous ; sides of the 

 neck, dull ferruginous, streaked with brown ; eye, large ; iris, 

 pale amber ; back and shoulders, deep brown ; wings, dusky, 

 barred with blackish ; ends of the five first primaries, nearly 

 black ; scapulars, barred broadly with white and brown ; sides 

 of the tail-coverts, white, barred with ferruginous, middle ones 

 dark, edged with rust ; tail, rounded, extending two inches 

 beyond the wings, and of a bright red brown, with a single 

 band of black near the end, and tipt with brownish white ; 

 on some of the lateral feathers are slight indications of the 

 remains of other narrow bars ; lower parts, brownish white ; 

 the breast, ferruginous, streaked with dark brown ; across the 

 belly, a band of interrupted spots of brown ; chin, white ; 

 femorals and vent, pale brownish white, the former marked 

 with a few minute heart-shaped spots of brown ; legs, yellow, 

 feathered half way below the knees. 



This was a male. Another specimen, shot within a few 

 days after, agreed in almost every particular of its colour and 

 markings with the present, and, on dissection, was found to 

 be a female. 



