282 AMERICAN BUZZARD, OR WHITE-BREASTED HAWK. 
feet nine inches in extent ; bill, blue black ; cere, and sides 
of the mouth, yellow, tinged with green ; lores, and spot on 
the under eyelid, white, the former marked with fine radiating 
hairs ; eyebrow, or cartilage, a dull eel-skin colour, prominent, 
projecting over the eye ; a broad streak of dark brown extends 
from the sides of the mouth backwards ; crown and hind head, 
dark brown, seamed with white, and ferruginous ; sides of the 
neck, dull ferruginous, streaked with brown; eye, large; 
iris, pale amber ; back and shoulders, deep brown ; wings, 
dusky, barred with blackish ; ends of the five first primaries, 
nearly black ; scapulars, barred broadly with white and brown ; 
sides of the tail-coverts, white, barred with ferruginous, middle 
ones dark, edged with rust ; tail, rounded, extending two 
inches beyond the wings, and of a bright red brown, with a 
single band of black near the end, and tipt with brownish 
white ; on some of the lateral feathers are slight indications of 
the remains of other narrow bars ; lower parts, brownish white ; 
the breast, ferruginous, streaked with dark brown ; across the 
belly, a band of interrupted spots of brown ; chin, white ; 
femorals and vent, pale brownish white, the former marked 
with a few minute heart-shaped spots of brown ; legs, yellow, 
feathered half way below the knees. 
This was a male. Another specimen, shot within a few 
days after, agreed, in almost every particular of its colour 
and markings, with the present ; and, on dissection, was found 
to be a female. 
AMERICAN BUZZARD, OR WHITE-BREASTED HAWK. 
FALCO BOREALIS ?— Plate LII. Fig. I. 
Lath. Syn. Sup. p. 31 Ind. Orn. i. p. 18, No. 31 Peak's Museum , No. 400. 
BUTEO BOREALIS. Young of the year Bonaparte. 
Falco (sub-genus Buteo) borealis, Bonap. Synop. p. 32. 
It is with some doubt and hesitation that I introduce the 
present as a distinct species from the preceding. In their 
size and general aspect they resemble each other considerably ; 
yet I have found both males and females among each ; and in 
