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ORNITHOLOGY. 



Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. IT, Plate LI ; Gould, B. of Aust. I, Plate 

 XXVI. 



A specimen of this species in young plumage from the Feejee Islands 

 is very similar to others from Australia, now in the collection of the 

 Philadelphia Academy. We have no doubt of their specific identity. 



Mr. Peale remarks : 

 This liawk's manners, its long wings and tail, its white rump, and 

 its unceasing industry in coursing, will at once remind an American 

 of the marsh hawk, or the Englishman of the harrier. Lizards form 

 no inconsiderable portion of its food. 



Our specimen is a male, and was shot at Mathuata, Island of 

 Yenua Levu, on the twenty-first of June." 



This bird is known almost exclusively as a bird of Australia, and is 

 very handsomely figured by Mr. Gould, as above cited. Its being ob- 

 tained at the Feejee Islands by the present Expedition, is a point of 

 much interest, and demonstrates a more extensive range of locality 

 than hitherto assigned to this species. 



2. Circus hudsonius {Linn.). — The Marsh Hawk. — The 

 American Harrier. 



Falro Jiudsoniiis, LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 128 (1766). 

 Falco ulujinoma, Gm. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 278 (1788). 

 Fnico europoijistus, Daud. Traite, II, p. 110 (1800). 



Vieill. Ois. d'Am. Sept. I, Plate IX; Wilson, Am. Orn. VI, Plate 

 LI, Fig. 2 ; Bonap. Am. Orn. II, PKate XII ; And. B. of Am. Plate 

 CCCLVI; oct. ed. I, Plate XXVI; Faun. Bor. Am. Birds, Plate 

 XXIX. 



its centre; feathers of the crown and nape, white at their bases; those of the head, brown 

 in the centre, with ferruginous margins ; those of the neck with white margins, which 

 form a nuchal spot; scapulars dark sepia-brown, slightly tipped with ferruginous; pri- 

 maries dark-brown, gray on the outer web ; spurious wings gray, with three brown bars ; 

 shafts chestnut-brown above, dusky beneath ; third quill longest, first and sixth nearly 

 equal, first four with deeply indented inner webs, and slightly barred on the under side 

 with tawny. 



"Total length, nineteen and a half inches; wing from the flexure, fifteen and three- 

 quarter inches; tail, eight and a half inches; tarsi, three and a half inches; middle toe 

 including the nail, one and three-quarter inches; nail, seven-tenths of an inch; bill, one 

 and three-tenths of an inch. Male." 



