SWALLOW-TAILED HAWK. 
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SUBGENUS VII. SLAN'l/Sf SAVIGNV. 
^6. yAIiCO PlfltCATVS^ SWALIiOW-TAIEEU HAWK. 
"‘'•Son, ru.Li. fig. ii. male. — Edinburgh collf-ge museum. 
Tills very eleffant species inhabits the southern 
of the United States in summer ; is seldom 
l'" as far north as Pennsylvania, but is very abundant 
^ ^Outh Carolina and Cieor^^ia, and still more so in 
Florida, and the extensive prairies ol Ohio 
th Indiana territory. I met witli tliese birds in 
^'‘riy part of May, at a place called Duck Creek, in 
u,, “«ssee, and found them sailiu<r about in great 
near Bayo Manchac on the Mississippi, tvventy 
J beiun- within view at the same time. At that 
a speefes of cicada, or locust, swarmed among 
Ds! making a deafening noise, and I could 
tliese hawks frcqueiitlv snatching them from 
in yfecs, A species of lizard, which is very numerous 
(iiiarter of the country, and has the faculty oi 
its colour at will, also lurnishes the swallow- 
Syjy'l hawk with a favourite morsel. These lizards are 
Hi|„*’tin,(,g of inost brilliant Ught green, in a few 
tij, 'Jtes change to a dirty clay colour, and again become 
i(i5''ly black. The swallow-tailed hawk, and Mississippi 
sih^’i ^®ed eagerly on this lizard ; and, it is sau , on a 
% u snake also, which is the mortal enemy of 
Hii,:‘*W’d, and frequently pursues it to tke very exte - 
“f the branches, where both become the prey of 
hawk.* , ,, . 
OcM® swallow-tailed hawk retires to the south in 
at which season, Mr Bartrarn lutorms me, they 
animal, if I mistake not, is the Zawrta hdlaris, m 
hvarrf, „f Turton, vol. i. p. 666- The focihty with 
lWur^‘ changes colour is surprising, and not generally known to 
