BROAD-WENGED HAWK. 
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but it was attacked and driven away by a King-bird before I 
could effect my purpose, and I have never since been fortunate 
enough to meet with another. On dissecting the one which I 
had shot, it proved to be a male. 
In size this Hawk agrees, nearly, with the Buzzardet, {Fal- 
co albidiis) of Turton, described also by Pennant; (Arct. Zool. 
N. 109.) but either the descriptions of these authors are very 
inaccurate, the change of colour which that bird undergoes very 
great, or the present is altogether a different species. Until, 
however, some other specimens of this Hawk come under my 
observation, I can only add to the figure here given, and which 
is a good likeness of the original, the following particulars of 
its size and plumage. 
Length fourteen inches, extent thirty-three inches; bill black, 
blue near the base, slightly toothed ; cere and corners of the 
mouth yellow; irides bright amber; frontlet and lores white; 
from the mouth backwards runs a streak of blackish brown; 
upper parts dark brown, the plumage tipt, and the head streak- 
ed, with whitish; almost all the feathers above are spotted or 
barred with white; but this is not seen unless they be separated 
by the hand; head large, broad and flat; cere very broad, the 
nostril also large; tail short, the exterior and interior feathers 
somewhat the shortest, the others rather longer, of a full black, 
and crossed with two bars of white, tipt also slightly with 
whitish; tail-coverts spotted with white; wings dusky brown, 
indistinctly barred with black; greater part of the inner vanes 
snowy; lesser coverts, and upper part of the back, tipt and 
streaked with bright ferruginous; the bars of black are very dis- 
tinct on the lower side of the wing; lining of the wing brown- 
ish white, beautifully marked with small arrow-heads of brown; 
chin white, surrounded by streaks of black; breast and sides 
elegantly spotted with large arrow-heads of brown, centred 
with pale brown; belly and vent, like the breast, white, but 
more thinly marked with pointed spots of brown; femorals 
brownish white, thickly marked with small touches of brown 
and white; vent white; legs very stout; feet coarsely scaled, 
