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, 211/2, 44.