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BENEFICIAL HAWKS. 

 MAESH HAWK. 



Adult Male. Upper parts grey or ashy. Upper tail coverts white; tail 

 irregularly marked or barred with blackish; upper breast pearl-gray; lower breast 

 and belly white spotted and barred with rufous. 



Adult Female. Upper parts dark brownish, head and neck streaked and the 

 wing coverts spotted or margined with rufous; upper tail coverts white; middle 

 tail feathers barred with ashy and black, others barred with buff and black ; under 

 parts reddish buff streaked with dark brown. 



Immature. Similar to the female, but somewhat darker all over. 



Male L., 19.00; W., 13.75; T., 9.00. Female L., 23.00; W., 15; T., 10.00. 



Nest, on the ground in marshes. Eggs, four to six pale bluish wliite. 



EED-TAILED HAWK. 



Adult. Dark brown above, many feathers edged with tawny; four outer 

 primaries emarginate. Wing coverts not edged with rufous; below creamy white 

 streaked with various shades of brown, generally forming a broken band across 

 the abdomen. Tail, rich chestnut-red with black band near the end and a narrow 

 white tip. 



Immature. Similar, but tail of same color as the back with distinct blackish 



l>ars. 



Male L., 20.00; W., 15.50: T., 9.25. Fenmle L., 23.00; W., 16.50: T., 9.75. 



Nest in high trees. Eggs, two to four dull white, generally scantily marked 

 with rich bi'own of various shades. 



EED-SHOULDEEED HAWK. 



Adult. Upper parts dark greyish brown, the feathers more or less edged with 

 rufous. Bend of the wing, orange brown, forming a conspicuous "shoulder patch" ; 

 four outer primaries emarginate: tail blackish with four or five white cross-bars 

 and white tip, throat streaked with blackish, rest of the under parts rufous, every- 

 where barred with whitish. 



Immature. Upper parts similar to adult; lesser wing-coverts margined with 

 rufous, basal part of primaries mostly ochraceous buff, fading to whitish on the 

 inner web with broken bars of dusky brown ; tail greyish brown indistinctly barred, 

 the inner webs of the feathers with white bars ; under parts white with dark streaks. 



Miale, L., 18.30: W., 12.50; T., 8.00. Female, L., 20.35; W., 13.50; T., 9.00. 



Nest, in trees. Eggs, four or five: dull white, generally blotched with reddish 

 brov:n. 



BEOAU-WINGED HAWK. 



Adult. Upper parts dark greyish brown the feathers more or less margined 

 with bu%, those of the hind head and nape white at base: three outer primaries 

 emarginate: tail ^vith two or three dark bands alternating with narrow white ones. 

 Below white variously streaked and spotted with rusty, the latter color predominat- 

 ing in some specimens. 



