BIRDS OF KANSAS. 2G7 



of sticks and twigs, and scantily lined with a few weeds or 

 grasses. Eggs three to five, 2.25x1.75; dull bluish white; vary 

 greatly in markings, some thinly and rather evenly specked and 

 spotted, others with irregular blotches and splashes of faint to 

 dark reddish brown and a few stains of purple; in form, rounded 

 oval. 



Buteo latissimus (Wils.). 



BROAD- WINGED HAWK. 

 PLATE XVII. 



A summer resident in the eastern part of the State; rare. 

 Arrive about the first of April; leave by the first of November 

 ■(at least I have not seen them later). 



B. 27. E. 443. C. 524. G. 208, 125. U. 343, 



Habitat. Eastern North America; north to New Brunswick 



and western Manitoba; west to the edge of the Great Plains; 



south in winter to northern South America. 



Sp. Chak. "Only three outer quills with iuner webs emargiuate. Adult: 

 Upper surface dark umber brown, the featliers gradually paler toward edges; 

 on the back the feathers are more uniform dusky, causing a prevalent blackisli 

 appearance; rump and upper tail coverts blackish vandyke brown; the latter 

 tipped with pure white, and with a concealed bar of same about the middle of 

 each feather; tail dull black, with an obscure terminal band of dull brown, this 

 fading terminally into whitish; across the middle of the tail a broad band of 

 dull light umber (in some individuals approaching dull white) about three- 

 fourths of an inch in width; about as far anterior to the main band as this is 

 from the tip is another much nari'ower and more obscure band of the same 

 color, crossing just beyond the ends of the coverts, or concealed by them. Pri- 

 maries uniform brownish black, fading on terminal edge into pale brown; head 

 above, and broad but inconspicuous 'mustache' ruuning from beneath the lore 

 downward across the check, dull black; the crown posteriorly, with the occiput 

 and nape, having the dull black much broken, caused by lateral streaks of dull 

 rufous on all the feathers; this dull rufous tint prevails on the rest of the head 

 and neck, as well as the breast, leaving the lores and chin and lateral portion 

 of frontlet alone whitish; throat streaked with blackish; beneath dull brownish 

 rufous, that of the breast almost unvaried; medially, however, are roundish 

 spots of white on opposite webs, but these are not confluent; posteriorly these 

 spots become gradually more numerous and more transverse, forming on the 

 flanks transverse bands, almost continuous; on the tibite the white prevails, the 

 rufous bars being more distant, and connected only by a brown shaft line; lower 

 tail coverts less numerous, transverse spots of dull rufuous; liniug of the wing 

 ochraceous white, with sparse, rather small, irregular deltoid spots of dull 

 rufous; under surface of the primaries unvaried white, as far as their emargina- 

 tion, beyond which they are black; fourth quill longest; third a little shorter; 

 second intermediate between fiftli and sixth; first about equal to the ninth. 



