6G 
FALCO PENNSYLVANICUS. 
same species, sailing about over the same woods. I** 
motions were in wide circles, ivith unmoving wing?’ 
the exterior outline of which seemed a complete senn' 
circle. I was extremely anxious to procure this also, n 
l)ossible 5 but it was attacked and driven away biT * 
king-bird before I could cliect my purj)ose, aird I ba'’'^ 
never siiuie been fortunate enough to meet with anothc'’' 
On dissection, the one I had shot proved to be a mak- 
In size this hawk agrees, nearly, with the buzzarde^j^ 
(^falco albidus,) of Turton, described also by Pennant; 
but either the descriptions of these authors are vet^ 
inaccurate, the chaime of colour which that bird unde*’' 
goes very great, or the present is altogether a ditt'eren* 
species. Until, however, some other specimens of th’* 
hawk come under my observation, I can only add tl**’ 
following particulars of its size and ])lum,ige : — 
Length, fourteen inches ; extent, thiity-three inebe^’j 
bill, black, blue n(!ar tbe base, slightly toothed ; cere an 
corners of the mouth, yellow; irides, bright amber ' 
frontlet and lores, white ; from the mouth backward' 
runs a streak of blackish brown; upper parts, ditf" 
brown, tbe plumage tipt and the head streaked 
w'hitish; almost all the feathers above ai-e spotted 
barred with white, but this is not seen unless tbeV 
separated by the hand ; head, large, broad, and flat ; e‘‘r‘’ 
very broad; the nostril also large; tail short, the exteri*’* 
and interior feathers somewhat the shortest, the other' 
rather longer, of a full black, and crossed with two b*"^ 
of white, tipt also slightly with whitish ; tall covert* 
sjjotted with white ; wdngs, dusky brown, indistim'tv 
k; greater part of the inner vaiif’ 
snow y ; lesser coverts, and ujiper part of the back, 
.and streaked with bright ferruginous ; the bars of bln*-'' 
are very distinct on the lower side of the wing; Unh'f 
of the wing, brownish whiti>, beautifully marked j 
small arrow-heads of bromi ; chin, white, surround**, 
by streaks of black ; breast and sides, elegantly spot*'^.“ 
with large arrow'-heads of brown centered uTith 
* Arct, Zooh No. 109. 
