16^ AMERICAN BROWN HAWK. 



white, marked on the breast and belly with brown 

 streaks down the shaft of the feathers : the tail 

 cinereous brown, crossed by three brown bars : the 

 bill blueish ; the legs slender and yellow. Native 

 of North America. 



VAR. ? 



The figure referred to by Mr. Latham in Miller's 

 Illustrations of Natural History, and which he sup- 

 poses to be meant for the same species, differs so 

 much in some particulars as to demand a separate 

 description. It is of a deep subferruginous brown 

 above, and dull cinereous beneath, with longitudinal 

 black spots on the under parts and thighs : the 

 quill-feathers are subferruginous, barred with black, 

 and the tail ferruginous, crossed by six narrow 

 black bars; the bill blueish; the legs deep yellow> 

 and rather stout or short than .slender. 



