ASH-COLOURED OR BLACK-CAP HAWK. 2 8? 



white and some pale rust ; scapulars and wing-coverts, spotted 

 with white ; wing-quills much resembling the preceding 

 species ; tail-coverts, white, handsomely barred with brown ; 

 tail, slightly rounded, of a pale brown colour, varying in some 

 to a sorrel, crossed by nine or ten bars of black, and tipt for 

 half an inch with white; wings, brown, barred with dusky ; 

 inner vanes nearly all white ; chin, throat, and breast, pure 

 white, with the exception of some slight touches of brown that 

 enclose the chin ; femorals, yellowish white, thinly marked 

 with minute touches of rust ; legs, bright yellow, feathered 

 half way down ; belly, broadly spotted with black or very 

 deep brown ; the tips of the wings reach to the middle of the 

 tail. 



My reason for inclining to consider this a distinct species 

 from the last is the circumstance of having uniformly found 

 the present two or three inches larger than the former, though 

 this may possibly be owing to their greater age. 



ASH-COLOURED OR BLACK-CAP HAWK. 



(Falco atricapillus.) 



PLATE LIL— Fig. 3. 



Ash-coloured Buzzard? Lath. Syn. i. p. 55, No. 35. — Peale's Museum, No. 406. 



ASTUR ATRICAPILLUS— Bonaparte.* 



Falco palumbarius, Bonap. Synop. p. 28. — Autour royal, Falco regalis, Temm. PI. 

 Col. tab. 495. — Accipiter (Astur) atricapillus, North. Zool. ii. p. 39. — Astur 

 atricapillus, Jard. and Selb. Illust. Om. pi. 121. 



Of this beautiful species I can find no precise description. 

 The ash-coloured buzzard of Edwards differs so much from 



* The Falco atricapillus of Wilson has been confounded by all 

 writers, except the Prince of Musignano in his review of Cuvier, and 

 the authors of the " Northern Zoology," with the goshawk of Europe. 

 Wilson expresses his doubt, from being unable to compare it with actual 

 specimens. Sabine makes out the arctic specimens to be identical. 

 Audubon is of opinion, also, that they were identical ; but from what I 

 recollect of that gentleman's drawing, it must have been made from this 



