Plate XCI. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female.
General colour of upper parts umber-brown; quills blackish-brown, the
greater part of their inner webs whitish, with narrow dusky bands;
tail with three very broad bands of dark brown; alternating with two
broad white bands, and the tips brownish-white; cheeks reddish-brown,
with a dark mystachial band; lower parts yellowish-white, barred with
light brown, that colour predominating anteriorly. Female similar,
lighter above, more tinged with red beneath, where the spots are
larger and more irregular. Young with the upper parts brown, streaked
and spotted with white; the tail light greyish-brown, with seven dusky
bars; lower parts yellowish-white, longitudinally marked with
linear-oblong brown spots.
_Male_, 16, 38. _Female_, 19.
From Maryland to Nova Scotia. Rare in the interior.
Broad-winged Hawk, Falco Pennsylvanicus, Wils. Amer. Ornith.
v. vi. p. 92.
Falco Pennsylvanicus, Bonap. Syn. p. 29.
Broad-winged Hawk, Falco Pennsylvanicus, Nutt. Man. v. i. p.
105.
Broad-winged Hawk, Falco Pennsylvanicus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i.
p. 461, v. v. p. 377.