AMERICAN' BUZZARD. 
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3 ®y®s, as if quite passive. Thoug-h he lived so long 
food, ho was found on dissection to be exceed- 
sorJ fat, his stomach being enveloped in a mass of 
fivt of nearly an inch in thickness, 
j Jhe white-breasted hawk is twenty-two inches long, 
k] four feet in extent ; cere, pale green ; bill, pale 
black at the poitvt; eye, bright straw colour; 
/®“'’ow, projecting greatly ; head, broad, Hat, and large; 
part of the head, sides of tlie neck and back, 
streaked and seamed with white and some pale 
sca]mlars .and wing-coverts spotted with white; 
tjrS quills much re.sembling the preceding species ; 
tli white, handsomely barred with brown ; tail, 
b'htely rounded, of a pale brown colom-, varying in 
- to a sorrel, crossed by nine or ten bars of black, 
ba for I'alf an inch with white ; wings, brown, 
with dusky ; inner vanes nearly all white ; chin, 
s J^at, and breast, pure white, with the exception of 
fe^* touches of brown that enclose the chin ; 
to, ^rals, yellowish white, thinly marked with minute 
a of rust ; legs, bright yellow, feathered half way 
Co ’ broadly spotted with black or very deep 
a "'o : the tips of the wings reach to the middle of 
tail 
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sp reasons for inclining to consider this a distinct 
t}, ®'*® from the last, is that of having uniformly found 
tj, I'resent two or three inches larger than the former, 
this may possibly be owing to their greater 
SUBGEX-US ly..— emeus, eechstein. 
- 2 . PALCO IIYSUALIS, WILSON. — WINTER FALCON. 
'VILSON, PL. XXXV. FIG. I. — ADULT MALE. 
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elegant and spirited hawk visits ns from the 
‘h early in November, and leaves us late in March. 
