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BROAD- WINGED IIAWK. 
plumage above and on the breast, a dark reddish drab, reddest 
on the head and breast ; sides under the wings, light chestnut ; 
belly, white ; vent, yellow ochre ; exterior vanes of the tertials, 
white; a small spot of white marks the primaries immediately 
below their coverts, and another slighter streak crosses them 
in a slanting direction ; the three exterior tail-feathers are tipt 
with white ; the legs and feet, flesh-coloured. 
This species seems to have a peculiar dislike to the sea-coast, 
as in the most favourable situations, in other respects, within 
several miles of the sea, it is scarcely ever to be met with. 
Scarcity of its particular kinds of favourite food in such places 
may probably be the reason ; as it is well known that many 
kinds of insects, on the larvse of which it usually feeds, care- 
fully avoid the neighbourhood of the sea. 
BROAD-WINGED HAWK. — FALCO PENNSYLVANICUS. 
Plate LIV. Fig. 1. 
Peak's Museum, No. 407. 
ASTUR? LATISSIMUS.— Jardine.* 
Falco latissimus, Ord's reprint of Wilson . — Faleo (sub-genus Astur) Pennsylvanicus, 
Bonap. S i/nop. p. 29 The Broad-winged Hawk, Aud. pi. 91, male and 
female ; Orn. Biog. i. p. 461 . 
This new species, as well as the rest of the figures on the 
same plate, is represented of the exact size of life. The Hawk 
was shot on the 6 th of May, in Mr Bar tram’s woods, near the 
* Mr Ord’s name of latissimus, is the most proper for this Hawk. Wilson 
seems inadvertently to have given the name of Pennsylvanicus to two 
species, and the latter being applied to the adult plumage, and velox to the 
young, the former has been retained by Temminck and the authors of the 
Northern Zoology, while Ord seems to have the merit of discriminating the 
large species, and giving it the title above adopted. I have taken Astur, 
on the authority of Bonaparte, for its generic appellation ; though the habits 
and kind of food ally it more to the Buzzards, it is one of those birds with 
dubious and combined characters. Mr Audubon describes it as of a quiet 
and sluggish disposition, allowing itself to be tormented by the little Sparrow 
