106 
BIRDS OF PREY. 
appear to be all that were known to Wilson of this 
species. 
The Buzzardet , of Pennant, No. 109, vol. i. p. 245, 
described from a specimen in the Leverian Museum, is 
doubtless this species. 
The length of this 'specimen (a male) was 14 inches (according 
to Pennant, 15 inches), extent 33. Bill black, bluish near the base, 
slightly toothed ; cere and corners of the mouth yellow. Irids arm 
ber color. Frontlet and lores white. From the mouth backwards 
runs a patch of blackish brown. Upper parts dark brown, beneath 
the surface spotted and barred with white. Plead large, broad, 
and flat, streaked with whitish. Tail short, the exterior and inte- 
rior feathers somewhat shorter ; tail coverts spotted with white. 
Wings dusky brown, obscurely barred with black ; most of the inner 
vanes partly white ; lining of the wing brownish- white, marked 
with small arrow-heads of brown. Chin white, surrounded with 
streaks of black. Belly and vent, like the breast, white, but more 
thinly marked with pointed spots of brown. Femorals pale brownish 
white, thickly marked with small touches of brown and white. 
Legs stout ; feet coarsely scaled, both of a, dirty orange yellow, 
Female , much larger, lighter colored over the eye, being rufous- 
white with minute spots ; femorals and beneath the wing marked 
with cordate spots. Beneath rufous- white with oblong dusky -brown 
spots. Belly and rump the same color, but spotless. 
WINTER FALCON, or RED-SHOULDEREB 
HAWK. 
( Falco hyemalis , Gmel. Audubon, pi. 71. Wilson, Am. Orn. iv. 
p. 73. pi. 35. fig. 1. [adult male] and Red-shouldered Hawk ? 
F. lineatus , id. 6 . p. 86. pi. 53. fig. 3. [young male.] Audubon, 
pi. Philad. Museum, 205, 272, and 273.) 
Spec. Charact. — Brownish, varied with white and ferruginous; 
tail always banded, extending considerably beyond the closed 
wings. — Adult : brown ; beneath, head, neck, and tail coverts 
white, spotted longitudinally with brown ; tail with 8 or 9 bands 
of dark and light brown. — Young , brown and ferruginous, be- 
neath rusty, slightly varied with faint bars ; wings dusky and 
barred ; tail black, crossed and tipped with 5 bands of white, 
