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HARLAN’S BUZZARD. 
brown ; larger lighter brown, tipped with white. Primary quills blackish- 
brown ; secondaries lighter, tipped with brownish-wliite ; all barred with 
blackish. Upper tail coverts whitish, barred with brown, and yellowish-red 
in the middle. Tail bright yellowish-red, tipped with whitish, and having a 
narrow bar of black near the end. Lower parts brownish-white; the fore 
part of the breast and neck light yellowish-red, the former marked with 
guttiform, somewhat sagittate brown spots ; abdomen and chin white ; 
feathers of the leg and tarsus pale reddish-yellow, those on the outside 
indistinctly spotted. 
Length 204 inches ; extent of wings 46 ; bill along the back H, along 
the gap 2; tarsus 3s, middle toe 2£. Wings when closed reaching to 
within two inches of the tip of the tail. 
Adult Female. 
The female, which is considerably larger, agrees with the male in the 
general distribution of its colouring. The upper parts are darker, and the 
under parts nearly white, there being only a few narrow streaks on the sides 
of the breast ; the tibial and tarsal feathers as in the male. The tail is of 
a duller red, and wants the black bar. 
Length 24 inches. 
HARLAN’S BUZZARD. 
Buteo Harlani, Aud. 
PLATE VIII. — Male and Female. 
Long before I discovered this fine Hawk, I was anxious to have an oppor- 
tunity of honouring some new species of the feathered tribe with the name 
of my excellent friend Dr. Richard Harlan of Philadelphia. This I might 
have done sooner, had I not waited until a species should occur, which in its 
size and importance should bear some proportion to my gratitude toward 
that learned and accomplished friend. 
The Hawks now before you were discovered near St. Francisville, in 
Louisiana, during my late sojourn in that State, and had bred in the neigh- 
bourhood of the place where I procured them, for tjvo seasons, although they 
had always eluded my search, until, at last, as I was crossing a large cotton 
field, one afternoon, I saw the female represented in the Plate standing 
