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OUR WINTER BIRDS 



The Sharp-shinned Hawk is too small to catch grown 

 chickens, but it is winged death to small birds. Ex- 

 amination of one hundred and five stomachs of 



Red-shouldered Hawk 



this little Hawk showed that six had eaten poultry 

 or game birds, and ninety-nine other birds. The 

 Goshawk, a very large cousin of these two Hawks, 

 which comes to the northern states usually in small 

 numbers in winter, also feeds upon other birds and 



