Female, 23 inches, wing 17.
Rocky Mountains, Columbia River, and Fur Countries.
Buteo vulgaris, Common Buzzard, Rich. & Sw. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 47.
Common Buzzard, Falco buteo, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 108.
7. 3. Buteo borealis, Gmel. Red-tailed Buzzard.—Red-tailed Hawk.—Hen Hawk.
Plate LI. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female.
Male with the upper part of the head and hind neck light greyish-brown, the back and scapulars dark brown, the latter broadly margined with brownish-white; smaller wing-coverts chocolate-brown; larger, lighter, tipped with white; primary quills blackish-brown, secondaries lighter, tipped with brownish-white, all barred with blackish; upper tail-coverts whitish, barred with brown; tail bright yellowish-red, with a narrow bar of black near the end, and tipped with whitish. Lower parts yellowish-white, the fore part of the breast with linear, guttiform, or sagittate spots; feathers of the leg and tarsus pale reddish-yellow. Female similar to the male, but with the upper parts darker, the lower nearly white, there being only a few narrow streaks on the sides of the breast. Young with the upper parts brown, streaked with yellowish-red, the tail-coverts yellowish-white barred with brown, the tail light greyish-brown, barred with dark brown and tipped with white; lower parts yellowish-white, with oblong longitudinal brown spots; the feathers of the sides and tibiæ barred with the same.
Male, 201/2, 46. Female, 24.
From Texas northward to the Fur Countries, and westward to the base of the Rocky Mountains. Resident.
Red-tailed Hawk, Falco borealis, Wils. Am. Orn. v. vi. p. 76. Adult.
American Buzzard or White-breasted Hawk, Falco leverianus, Wils. Am. Orn. v. vi. p. 78.
Buteo borealis, Red-tailed Buzzard, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 50.
Red-tailed Hawk or Buzzard, Falco borealis, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 102.
Red-tailed Hawk, Falco borealis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. 1. p. 265; v. v. p. 378.
8. 4. Buteo Harlani, Aud. Harlan's Buzzard.—Black Warrior.