. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . the Marsh Hawk is proportionallyrare in that State, and that it only makes its appearance there after the RiceBirds have left the country for the south, and retires at the approach ofspring, before they have arrived. Marsh Hawk, Falco uliginosus, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. vi. p. 67. Young cyaneus, Bonap. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. or Marsh Hawk, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. Hawk, Falco cyaneus, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iv. p. 396. Buteo (Circus) cyaneus? var? Americanus, American He
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . the Marsh Hawk is proportionallyrare in that State, and that it only makes its appearance there after the RiceBirds have left the country for the south, and retires at the approach ofspring, before they have arrived. Marsh Hawk, Falco uliginosus, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. vi. p. 67. Young cyaneus, Bonap. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. or Marsh Hawk, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. Hawk, Falco cyaneus, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iv. p. 396. Buteo (Circus) cyaneus? var? Americanus, American Hen-Harrier, Swains, and Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 55. tAdult male, light ash-grey; abdomen, tail-coverts, lower wing-coverts,inner webs of secondary quills and tail-feathers white, primaries black towardthe end. Female, umber-brown above, head, hind neck and scapulars streakedwith light red; tail-coverts white; tail banded with light red; lower partslight yellowish-red, the neck streaked with brown. Young like the female,but lighter. Male, 19f, 44. Female, 20^, 46f. N?6. PI.
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