GKEAT FOOTED HAWK. 55 
Mr Wilson, and the writer of this article, 
i„P*OTed two of these swamps, in the month of Mar, 
in pursuit of the great heron and the subject of 
.tdiapter ; and although they vi ere successful in 
lining the former, vet the latter eluded their 
<=^|earch. 
anJ*'** great footed hawk is twenty inches in length, 
. d three feet eight inches in extent ; the hill is inllated, 
Ijldrl, and strong, of a light blue colour, ending- in 
upper mandible with a tooth-like process, 
d iower with a corresponding notch, and truncate ; 
^d**trils round, « ith a central ])oiut like the ]nstil of a 
the eye is large and dark, surrounded with a 
dad bare yellowish skin, the cartilage over it yellow 
e),' prominent ; frontlet whitish ; the head above, 
e deks, running off like mustaches, and hack, are black ; 
Wings and sca]uilars are brownish black, each 
dtlier ed'i-ed with paler, the former long and pointed, 
^f-^'ing almost to the end of the tail ; the primaries 
Va^ *^®condaries are marked triiusversely on the inner 
jdd^/'vith large oblong spots of ferruginous white, the 
Se-n 'd*" **1’ *-*'d f*rcondarics curiously 
ijj^.-dped, as if a piece had been cut otil. ; the tertials 
full ® to ash colour ; the lining of the n ing’S is beatiti- 
fer karred with black and white, and tinged with 
t-^l'Shious ; on a close examination, the scapulars and 
Sir f**’’ are found to be barred tvith faint ash ; all the 
are black ; the rump and tail coverts arc light 
Ip *> marked with large dusky bars ; the tail is rmuiding, 
el', > tipped with reddish white, and crossed with 
, sbt narrow bars of very faint ash ; the chin and 
eneircliiig the hhwk mustaches, are of a pak 
ff Colour; breast below and loner parts reddish huff, 
pale cinnamon, handaomelv marked with roundish 
'dart shaped spots of black ; sides broadly barred 
black; the femorals are elegantly ornamented 
.HU herring-bones of black on a huff’ ground ; the vent 
pale buff" marked as the femorals, though with less 
tb^,®*'»Hs spots ; the feet and legs arc of a corn yellow, 
6 latter short and stout, feathered a little below the 
