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ORNITHOLOGY. 



red, and showing very conspicuously the dark transverse stripes. Bill 

 and claws black; cere, eyelids, and tarsi greenish-yellow; irides brown. 



Hab. — Feejee Islands. Specimen in Nat. Mus. Washington. 



According to Mr. Peale, this bird was found in all of the Feejee 

 Islands, where it was known to the natives by the name of Manu 

 levu or great bird, and is remarkable for its courage in attacking pigeons 

 and other birds equal to itself in size." The specimens figured were 

 killed near the town of Levuka, in the Island of Ovolau. They are 

 represented about two-thirds of the natural size. 



This handsome hawk is also figured in the Atlas to the Voyage of 

 the Astrolabe and Zelee, Birds, Plate II, fig. 2 (Paris, folio). In Con- 

 spectus Avium, p. 33, the Prince of Canino cites this figure as repre- 

 senting Falco hiogasier, Miiller, Verhandlingen, p. 110, but erroneously, 

 as we have readily determined from having compared specimens of the 

 latter, in the Museum of the Philadelphia Academy, with those of the 

 present bird, in the National Collection, brought by the present Expe- 

 dition in the Vincennes and Peacock. The two species are, however, 

 strictly congeneric, but A. hlogaster is the larger, and of a different 

 shade of color on the lower parts. Both are remarkable for the entirely 

 uniform color of the upper and also of the under parts, without spots 

 or stripes of any kind whatever. 



5. Genus BUTEO, Cuvier, Kegn. An. I, p. 323 (1817). 



1. BuTEO VARIUS, Gould. 

 Buteo varius, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 10. 

 Atlas, Ornithology, Plate III, fig. 1. 



Form. — Wings rather long, and reaching within two inches of the end 

 of the tail ; fourth quill longest ; secondaries and tertiaries remark- 

 ably uniform in their length. Tail, containing twelve feathers, 

 rather short ; bill, tarsi, and feet moderate, both of the latter very 

 distinctly scaled; tarsus feathered about an inch below the joint. 



