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MARSH HAWK. 
their depredations. The planters consider one Marsh Hawk to be equal to 
several Negroes for alarming the Rice Birds.” Now, good reader, my 
friend John Bachman, who has resided more than twenty years in South 
Carolina, and who is a constant student of nature, and perhaps more 
especially attentive to the habits of birds, informs me that the Marsh 
Hawk is proportionally rare in that State, and that it only makes its ap- 
pearance there after the Rice Birds have left the country for the south, 
and retires at the approach of spring, before they have arrived. 
Marsh Hawk, Falco uliginosus, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. vi. p. 67. Young Female. 
Falco cyaneus, Bonap. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. 30. 
Hen-Harrier or Marsh Hawk, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 109. 
Marsh Hawk, Falco cganeus, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iv. p. 396. 
Buteo (Circus) cyaneus? var? Americanus, American Hen-Harrier , Swains, 
and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 55. 
Adult male, light ash-grey ; abdomen, tail-coverts, lower wing-coverts, 
inner webs of secondary quills and tail-feathers white, primaries black 
toward the end. Female, umber-brown above, head, hind neck, and sca- 
pulars streaked with light-red ; tail-coverts white ; tail banded with light 
red ; lower parts light yellowish-red, the neck streaked with brown. 
Young like the female, but lighter. 
Male, 191, 44. Female, 20§, 461. 
