RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 
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femoral feathers, large, pale yellow ochre, marked with 
immerous minute streaks of pale brown ; claws, black. 
The legs of this bird are represented by different authors 
as slender ; but I saw no appearance of this in those 
I examined. 
The female is considerably darker above, and about 
two inches longer. 
23 . FALCO LINEATUS) WILSON.* — RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 
WILSON, PLATE LIII. FIG. III. 
This species is more rarely met with than either of 
the former. Its haunts are in the neighbourhood of the 
sea. It preys on larks, sandpipers, and the small ringed 
plover, and frequently on ducks. It flies high and 
irregularly, and not in the sailing manner of the long- 
winged hawks. I have occasionally observed this bird 
near Egg Harbour, in New Jersey, and once in the 
meadows below this city. This hawk was first trans- 
mitted to Great Britain by Mr Blackburne, from Long 
Island, in the state of New York. With its manner of 
building, eggs, &c. we are altogether unacquainted. 
The red-shouldered hawk is nineteen inches long; 
the head and back are brown, seamed and edged with 
rusty ; bill, blue black ; cere and legs, yellow ; greater 
wing-coverts and secondaries, pale olive brown, thickly 
spotted on both vanes with white and pale rusty ; prima- 
ries, very dark, nearly black, and barred or spotted with 
white ; tail, rounded, reaching about an inch and a half 
beyond the wings, black, crossed by five bands of white, 
and broadly tip t with the same ; whole breast and belly, 
bright rusty, speckled and spotted with transverse rows 
of white, the shafts black ; chin and cheeks, pale brownish, 
streaked also with black ; iris, reddish hazel ; vent, pale 
ochre, tipt with rusty ; legs, feathered a little below the 
* This appears to be'the young male of the winter falcon. 
