FALCO LINEATUS* 
EED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 
[Plate LIII. Fig. 3.] 
Arct. ZooJ. p. 206, No. 102.— Lath, i., 50, No. 36.— Tdrt. Si/sf. p. 153. 
This Hawk is move i-arely met with than either of those in the same 
plate. Its haunts are in the neighborhood of the sea. It preys on 
Larks, Sandpipers, and the small Ringed Plover, and frequently on 
Ducks. It Hies high and irregularly, and not in the sailing manner of 
the Long-ivinged HaAvks. I have occasionally observed this bird near 
Egg Harbor, in New Jersey ; and once in the meadows below this city. 
This HaAvk was first transmitted to Great Britain by Mr. Blackburne, 
from Long Island, in the state of New York. Of its manner of build- 
ing, 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 ; prima- 
ries very dark, nearly black, and barred or spotted witli white ; tail 
rounded, reaching about an inch and a half beyond the wings, black, 
crossed by five bands of white, and l)roiidly tipped 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, tipped Avith rusty; 
legs feathered a little beloAV the knees, long ; these and the feet a fine 
yellow ; claws black ; femorals jiale 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 Phila- 
delphia. 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 color, 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 Avas also something larger. 
* This is stated by Prince Musignano to be the young male of the preceding 
species. 
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