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Jersey, and once in the meadows below this city. This hawk 

 was first transmitted to Great Britain by Mr Blackburne, 

 from Long Island, in the State of New York. With its 

 manner of building, eggs, &c, we are altogether unacquainted. 



The red-shouldered hawk is nineteen inches in length ; the 

 head and back are brown, seamed and edged with rusty ; bill, 

 blue black ; cere and legs, yellow ; greater wing-coverts and 

 secondaries, pale olive brown, thickly spotted on both vanes 

 with white and pale rusty ; primaries, very dark, nearly black, 

 and barred or spotted with white ; tail, rounded, reaching 

 about an inch and a half beyond the wings, black, crossed by 

 five bands of white, and broadly tipt with the same ; whole 

 breast and belly, bright rusty, speckled and spotted with 

 transverse rows of white, the shafts black ; chin and cheeks, 

 pale brownish, streaked also with black ; iris, reddish hazel ; 

 vent, pale ochre, tipt with rusty ; legs, feathered a little below 

 the knees, long ; these and the feet, a fine yellow ; claws, 

 black ; femorals, pale rusty, faintly barred with a darker tint. 



In the month of April I shot a female of this species, and 

 the only one I have yet met with, in a swamp, seven or eight 

 miles below Philadelphia. The eggs were, some of them, 

 nearly as large as peas ; from which circumstance I think it 

 probable they breed in such solitary parts even in this State. 

 In colour, size, and markings, it differed very little from the 

 male described above. The tail was scarcely quite so black, 

 and the white bars not so pure ; it was also something larger. 



FEMALE BALTIMOBE OBIOLE. {Oriolus 

 Baltimorus.) 



PLATE LIIL— Fig. 4. 



Amer. Orn. vol. i. p. 23. 

 ICTERUS BALTIMORE.— Davdw. 



The history of this beautiful species has been particularly 

 detailed in the first volume of the present work ; * to this repre- 



* See Vol. I. p. 16. 



