SHARP-SHINNED HAWK. 
69 
, On the 15th of September, two young men 
despatched on a shooting expedition, met with this 
Species on one of the ranges of the Alleghany. It was 
driven around in the same furious headlong manner, 
?*>d had made a sweep at a red squirrel, which eluded 
*** grasp, and itself became the victim. These arc the 
d% individuals of this bird I have been able to procure, 
dnd fortunately they were male and female. 
The female of this species was thirteen inches long, 
dnd twenty-live inches in extent ; the hill, black towards 
point on both mandibles, but light blue at its base ; 
P®’’*, a line pea green; sides of the mouth, the same; 
pale whitish blue, beset with hairs ; crown and 
'''hole upper parts, very dark brown, every feather 
darrowly skirted with a bright rust colour; oyer the 
a stripe of yellowish white, streaked with deep 
ifown; pnmaries, spotted on their inner vanes with 
^ck; secondaries, crossed on both vanes with three 
of dusky, below the coverts ; inner yanes oI hoth 
P^’^Uaries and secondaries, brownish white ; ah the 
^^apuiarj marked with large round spots ot white, not 
unless the plumage be parted with the hand ; tail, 
'’"gi nearly even, crossed with four bars of black and 
^,o>any of brown ash, and tipt with white ; throat and 
^kole lower parts, pale yellowish white; the former 
j ®U'ked with line long pointed spots of dark brown, the 
■'tter with large oblong spots of reddish brown ; lemo- 
thickly marked with spade-formed spots, on a 
P" 6 rufous'^ ground ; legs, long, and feathered a little 
O'v the knee, of a greenish yellow colour, most 
||®|low at the joints ; edges of the inside of the shins, 
kard 
hold 
ih/\y;,e^;';7„je;ring Hke the edge of a knife, 
and sharp as if intended to enable the bird to 
r.kl its prey with more security between them; eye, 
k'-iUiant yellow, sunk below a projecting cartilage. 
„ The nfale w.4 nearly two inches shorter ; the upper 
dark brown; the feathers, skirted with pale 
^®kdish, the front also streaked with the same ; cere, 
f^enish yellow • lores, bluish ; bill, black, as in the 
*«niale ; streak oyer the eye, lighter than in the former ; 
