BIRDS OF PREY 



343. Broad-winged Hawk. 

 Buteo platypterus. 



Range. — North America, east of the Plains, 

 and from the British Provinces southward. 



Grayish whiti 

 A medium sized species, about 16 inches in 



fer.*~ 



American Rough-legged Hawk 



length, and with a short tail and broad rounded 

 wings; adults have the underparts handsomely barred with brown. Their nests 

 are usually built in large trees, but generally placed against the trunk in the 

 crotch of some of the lower branches. It is made of sticks and almost Invari- 

 ably lined with hark. The two to four eggs are of a grayish white color, mark 

 ed with chestnut, hrown and stone gray; size 1.110 x 1.55. Data. — Worcester, 

 .Mass.. May It',, is!!.".. Nest about 20 feet up in a large chestnut i roe. The birds 

 continually circled overhead, their weird cries sounding like the creaking of 

 branches. Collector. A. J. White. 



344. Short-tailed Hawk. Buteo brachyurus. 



Range. A tropical species, which occurs north to the Mexican border and 

 regularly to southern Florida, where it breeds in the large cypress swamps. Its 

 eggs are pale greenish white, sparingly spotted with hrown. chiefly at the largo 

 end. Size 2.15 \ 1.60. 



345. Mi\n \\ Black Hawk. Urubitinga anthracina. 

 Range. .Mexican border of the United 



States and southward. 



A coal black species about 22 inches in 

 length, distinguished i>\ the white tip, 

 and broad white hand across the tail 

 aboul midway. This is one of the least 

 abundant of the Mexican species that 

 cross the border. They are sh\ birds and 

 Imibl their nests in the tallest trees in 

 remote woods. Their two or three eggs 

 are grayish white, faintly spotted with 

 pale brown; size 2.25x1.80. Data. Lo 



Angeles County, Cal., April 6, L889. 

 Xest of sticks, lined with hark and 

 leaves; 15 feel up in a sycamore tree. 



Collector, it. B. Chapman. 



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