BLACK HAWK 



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whole lower parts black, with slight tinges of brown, and a few 

 circular touches of the same on the femorals ; legs feathered to the 

 toes, and black touched with brownish; the wings reach rather 

 beyond the tip of the tail ; the five first primaries are white on 

 their inner vanes; tail rounded at the end, deep black, crossed 

 with five narrow bands of pure white, and broadly tipt with dull 

 white; vent black, spotted with white; inside vanes of the prima- 

 ries snowy; claws black, strong and sharp; toes remarkably short. 



I strongly suspect this bird to be of the very same species 

 with the next, though both were found to be males. Although 

 differing greatly in plumage, yet in all their characteristic features 

 they strikingly resemble each other. The Chocolate-colored Hawk 

 of Pennant, and St, JoIitls Falcon of the same author, (Arct. Zool. 

 No. 93 and 94,) are doubtless varieties of this ; and very probably 

 his Rough-legged Falcon also. His figures however are bad, and 

 ill calculated to exhibit the true form and appearance of the bird. 



This species is a native of North America alone. We have 

 no account of its ever having been seen in any part of Europe ; nor 

 have we any account of its place or manner of breeding. 



