F^LCO LINEATUS.* 
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 
[Plate LHI. — Fig. 3.] 
Arct. Zool. p. 206, JV'b. 102. — Lath, i, 56, JV*o. 36. — Tuiix. Syst, 
p. 153. — Peale’s Museum, JS/u. 205. 
This Hawk is more rarely met with than either of those in 
the same plate. Its haunts are in the neighbourhood of the sea. 
It preys on Larks, Sandpipers, and the small Ringed Plover, 
and frequently on Ducks. It flies high and irregularly, and 
not in the sailing manner of the Long-winged Hawks. I 
have occasionally observed this bird near Egg-Harbour, in 
New Jersey; and once in the meadows below this city. This 
Hawk was first transmitted to Great Britain by Mr. Black- 
bur ne, from Long Island, in the state of New York. Of its 
manner of building, eggs, &c. we are altogether unacquainted. 
The Red-shouldered Hawk is nineteen inches in length; the 
head and back are brown, seamed and edged with rusty; bill 
blue black; cere and legs yellow; greater wing-coverts and se- 
condaries pale olive brown, thickly spotted on both vanes with 
white and pale rusty; primaries very dark, nearly black, and 
barred or spotted with white; tail rounded, reaching about an 
inch and a half beyond the wings, black, crossed by five bands 
of white, and broadly tipt with the same; whole breast and bel- 
ly bright rusty, speckled and spotted with transverse rows of 
white, the shafts black; chin and cheeks pale brownish, streak- 
ed also with black; iris reddish hazel; vent pale ochre, tipt with 
rusty; legs feathered a little below the knees, long; these and 
the feet a fine yellow; claws black; femorals pale rusty, faintly 
barred with a darker tint. 
* This is stated by Pi-ince Musigiiano to be the young’ male of the preceding 
species. 
