RED-TAILED HAWK. 
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Ijji? ^’U'prised ill the act of feediun; on a hen he had just 
j, and which he was compelled to abandon. The 
of the chicken were immediately baited to a 
tcH* early the next morning the unfortunate 
ler vvas found a prisoner, securely fastened by the 
The same hen, which the day before ho had 
^^®*'*’tpred, was, the very next, made the means of 
f^^'ying him to his destruction, — in the eye of the 
a system of fair and just retribution. 
1 1 |.’® species inhabits the whole United States, and, 
,y®ueve, is not migratory, as I found it, in the month 
g ^y> a.s far south as Fort Adams, in the Mississippi 
•am- yonng were, at that time, nearly as 
as their parents, and were very clamorous, making 
*®cessant squealing noise. One, which I shot, con- 
Ij ''*'1 in its stomach mingled fragments of frogs and 
"^ds. 
red-tailed hawk is twenty inches long, and three 
Vd inches in extent; bill, blue black; cere, 
W mouth, yellow, tinged with green; 
H). I> and spot on the under eyelid, white, the former 
a T j®'livith flue radiating hairs ; eyebrow, or c.artilage, 
'■'ye- ®®*‘®i^'“ cidour, prominent, projecting over the 
sfj i a broad streak of dark brown extends from the 
the mouth backwards ; crown and hind head. 
Of ®''owu, seamed with white, and ferruginous ; sides 
®yc I ferruginous, streaked with brown; 
bfo’ *''lie ; iris, pale amber ; back and shoulders, deep 
thg ^ ; wings, dusky, barred with blackish ; ends of 
hr- jT® first primaries nearly black ; scapulars, barred 
Hit ^ With white and brown ; sides of the tail coverts, 
lvu| > fiarred with ferruginous, middle ones dark, edged 
the , tail, rounded; extending two inches beyond 
Of r 7 '®8s, and of a bright red brown, with a single band 
On near the end, and tipt with brownish white ; 
Of jn®*® ®t’ the lateral feathers are slight indications 
hfe,®®. teraains of other narrow bars ; lower parts. 
'^tk 1*®^' ; *'*® I""®®®*, ferruginous, streaked with 
brown ; across the belly, a band of interrupted 
®i' brown; chin, white; femorals and vent, pale 
