FALCONING. BUTEO. 
rest of the lower parts yellowish or brownish- white^ barred with brown. 
This species is subject to much variation in colour. 
Female, 23 inches, wing- 17. 
Rocky Mountains, Columbia River, and Fur Countries. 
Buteo vulgaris, Common Buzzard, Rich. & Sw. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 47. 
Common Buzzard, Falco buteo, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 108. 
7. 3. Buteo borealis, Gmel. Red-tailed Buzzard. — Red- 
tailed Hawk. — Hen Hawk. 
Plate LI. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female. 
Male with the upper part of the head and hind neck light greyish - 
brown, the back and scapulars dark brown, the latter broadly mar- 
gined with brownish- white ; smaller wing-coverts chocolate-brown ; 
larger, lighter, tipped with white ; primary quills blackish-brown, se- 
condaries lighter, tipped with brownish- white, all barred with blackish ; 
upper tail-coverts whitish, barred with brown ; tail bright yellowish- 
red, with a narrow bar of black near the end, and tipped with whitish. 
Lower parts yellowish-white, the fore part of the breast with linear, 
guttiform, or sagittate spots ; feathers of the leg and tarsus pale reddish- 
yellow. Female similar to the male, but with the upper parts darker, 
the lower nearly white, there being only a few narrow streaks on the 
sides of the breast. Young with the upper parts brown, streaked with 
yellowish-red, the tail-coverts yellowish-white barred with brown, the 
tail light greyish-brown, barred with dark brown and tipped with 
white ; lower parts yellowish- white, with oblong longitudinal brown 
spots ; the feathers of the sides and tibiae barred with the same. 
Male, 204, 46. Female, 24. 
From Texas northward to the Fur Countries, and westward to the 
base of the Rocky Mountains. Resident. 
Red-tailed Hawk, Falco borealis, Wils. x\m. Orn. v. vi. p. 76. Adult. 
American Buzzard or White-breasted Hawk, Falco leverianus, Wils. Am. Orn. 
V. vi. p. 78. 
Buteo borealis. Red-tailed Buzzard, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 50. 
Red-tailed Hawk or Buzzard, Falco borealis, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 102. 
Red-tailed Hawk, Falco borealis, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. 1. p. 265 ; v. v. p, 378. 
8. 4. Buteo Harlani, Aud. Harlan’s Buzzard. — Black War- 
rior. 
Plate LXXXVI. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female. 
Size of Common Buzzard, which it resembles in form and propor- 
tion. General colour of plumage deep chocolate-brown, glossed with 
greyish-blue ; inner webs of quills white, those of the primaries barred 
with dusky toward the end ; tail lighter than the back, rather narrowly 
barred with brownish-black, and tipped with brownish-red ; lower 
parts paler, anteriorly streaked, posteriorly barred with brownish-black ; 
lower wing-coverts whitish, spotted with deep brown. 
