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SHARP-SHINNED HAWK. 
some small streaks of blackish; wing, black, the greater 
coverts and next superior row, broadly tipt with white, form- 
ing two broad bars across the wing ; primaries, edged with 
olive, tertials, with white ; tail-coverts, black, tipt with olive ; 
tail, slightly forked, black, and edged with olive ; the three 
exterior feathers altogether white on their inner vanes ; legs 
and feet, dirty yellow ; eye, dark hazel ; a few bristles at the 
mouth ; bill, not notched. 
This was a male. Of the female I can at present give no 
account. 
SHARP-SHINNED HAWK FALCO VELOX. 
Plate XLV. Fig. I. 
ACCIPITER PENNSYL VANICUS. — Swainson. — young female. 
Autour a bee sineuse, Temm. PI. Col. 67. 
This is a bold and daring species, hitherto unknown to 
naturalists. The only Hawk we have which approaches near 
it in colour is the Pigeon Hawk, already figured in this work, 
Plate XV. ; but there are such striking differences in the 
present, not only in colour, but in other respects, as to point out 
decisively its claims to rank as a distinct species. Its long 
and slender legs and toes — its red fiery eye, feathered to the 
eyelids — its triangular grooved nostril, and length of tail, — are 
all different from the Pigeon Hawk, whose legs are short, its 
eyes dark hazel, surrounded with a broad bare yellow skin, 
and its nostrils small and circular, centered with a slender 
point that rises in it like the pistil of a flower. There is no 
Hawk mentioned by Mr Pennant, either as inhabiting Europe 
or America, agreeing with this. I may, therefore, with 
confidence, pronounce it a nondescript ; and have chosen a 
very singular peculiarity which it possesses for its specific 
appellation. 
This Hawk was shot on the banks of the Schuylkill, near 
Mr Bartram’s. Its singularity of flight surprised me long 
before I succeeded in procuring it. It seemed to throw itself 
