84 FALCO LEVERIANUS. 
broAvnish Avhite, the former marked rrith a few 
heart-shaped spots of brown ; legs, yellow, feather 
half way beloAV the knees. ^ 
This AA'as a male. Another specimen, shot AA'ithm^j' 
few days after, agreed, in almost every particular 
its colour and markings, with the present; and, 
dissection, was found to be a female. 
21. JPALCO LBVERtANVS, AJIEHICAN BDZZAKD, oa WHIT*' 
BEEASTEU HAWK.* 
WILSON, PLATE Lll. FIG. I. 
It is with some doubt and hesitation that I introd^ 
the present as a distinct species from the precedi ^ 
In theii' size and general iispect they resemble ^ 
other considerably; yet I have found both males 
females among each; and in the present species I h^j. 
sometimes found the ground colour of the tail stroUr ' 
tinged with ferruginous, and the bars of dn.sky.”,. 
slight; Avhile in the preceding the tail is sometH".. 
w'holly red broivn, the single bar of black ne;ir the 
excepted ; in other s^iecimcns evident remains of 
rous other bars are visible. In the meantime, both ^ 
described, and future observations may throw more h? ^ 
on the matter. ,yt 
This bird is more numerous than the last," i 
frequents the same situations in winter. One, v' *' j 
was shot in the wing, lived with me several 
but refused to eat. It amused itself by 
hopping from one end of the room to the other , 
sitting for hours at the window, looking down 
the passengers below. At first, when a])proachett • 
any person, he generally put himself in a threa 
iug iiosition; but after some time he became <1^ | 
familiar, permitting himself to be handled, and shm 
This is the young of the preceding species. 
