HED-SHOULDERED HAWK. »/ 
femoral feathers, large, pale yellow ochre, marked with 
mRucrous minute streaks of pale brown ; claws, black. 
_ he legs of this bird are represented by different authors 
Y* slender; but I saw no appearance of this in those 
^^atnined. 
. The female is considerably darker above, and about 
"'0 inches longer. 
PALCO LINEATPS, WILSON.* BED-SnOULnEEEI) HAW'K. 
WILSON, PLATE till. FIG- lU- 
..This species is more rarely met with than either of 
‘he former. Its haunts are in the neighbourhood ot the 
It preys on larks, sandpipers, and the small ringed 
?'hTer, and frenuentlv oii ducks. It flies high and 
ll^hgularly, and not iii the sailing manner of the long- 
^‘hged hawks. I have occasionally observed this bird 
h«ar Egg Harbour, in New Jersey, and once in the 
meadows below this city. This hawk ivas fii'st trans- 
Y ftcd to Great Britain by Mr Blackburnc, from Long 
, mid, in the state of Now York. With its manner of 
“hilding, eggs, &c. we are altogether unacquainted. 
..The red-shouldered hawk is nineteen inches long; 
he head and back are brown, seamed and edged with 
'hhty, bill, blue black ; cere and legs, yellow ; 
mig-coverts and secondaries, pale olive brown, thickly 
potted on both vanes with white and pale rusty ; primi^ 
very dark, nearly black, and barred or spotted with 
5'f'*tc; tail, rounded, reaching about an inch and a hall 
S'oud the , rings, black, ci-ossed bv hve bands of white, 
liroadlv tipt with the same ; whole breast and belly, 
Thflit rusty, speckled and spotted with transverse rows 
®f''l»ite,the shafts black;chinandchcefe,palc brownish, 
®f>;oiked also with black ; iris, reddish ha^e ; vent, pale 
tipt with rusty; legs, feathered a little below the 
* This appears to be the young male of the winter falcon. 
