Plate LXXXVI. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female.
Size of Common Buzzard, which it resembles in form and proportion.
General colour of plumage deep chocolate-brown, glossed with
greyish-blue; inner webs of quills white, those of the primaries
barred with dusky toward the end; tail lighter than the back, rather
narrowly barred with brownish-black, and tipped with brownish-red;
lower parts paler, anteriorly streaked, posteriorly barred with
brownish-black; lower wing-coverts whitish, spotted with deep brown.
_Male_, 21, 45. _Female_, 22.
Louisiana. Extremely rare.
Black Warrior, Falco Harlani, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 441. v.
v. p. 380.
Black Buzzard, Falco Harlani, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 105.
9. 5. Buteo lineatus, Gmel. Red-breasted Buzzard.--Chicken Hawk,
Red-shouldered Hawk, Winter Hawk.
Plate LVI. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female. Adult.
Plate LXXI. Young male.
Adult with the head, neck, and back light yellowish-red,
longitudinally spotted with dark brown; smaller wing-coverts deep
yellowish-red, with the centre brown; larger coverts and secondary
quills dusky, broadly barred with white; primary quills
brownish-black, barred with white; tail brownish-black, narrowly
banded and tipped with white. Lower parts of the neck and lower
wing-coverts light yellowish-red, the former longitudinally lined with
dusky and faintly barred with whitish, the rest of the lower parts
barred with light red and reddish-white. Young with the upper parts
deep brown, the tail-coverts, tail, and quills barred with
brownish-white; the lower parts white, longitudinally streaked and
spotted with brown.
_Male_, 21-1/2, 44.
From Texas to Nova Scotia, and westward to the Missouri. Very
abundant. Resident.
Red-shouldered Hawk, Falco lineatus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vi.
p. 86. Young.
Winter Falcon, Falco hyemalis, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p. 73.
Adult.
Falco hyemalis, Bonap. Syn. p. 33.
Winter Falcon or Red-shouldered Hawk, Falco hyemalis, Nutt.
Man. v. i. p. 106.
Red-shouldered Hawk, Falco lineatus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p.
296; v. v. p. 380.
Winter Hawk, Falco hyemalis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 364.
Young.