ORNITHOLOGIST 



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OOLOGIST. 



Distribution of Cooper's Hawk in 

 Illinois. 



JV. E. Loucks. No. 34. 



Summer resident ; has not found it in 

 winter. Tolerably common. 



Nest usually in thick woods near a farm 

 house ; built in an oak. 



Nest composed of small twigs, lined with 

 a few pieces of hickory bark ; sometimes an 

 old Crows' or Squirrels' nest is used. 



May 3, nest on an old Crows' nest, Hawks' 

 nest and Crows' nest nearly 4 feet in thick- 

 ness, 25 feet from ground ; i egg. On May 

 10, 3 eggs from same nest. 



May 23, same woods; same birds (?), 

 , 1-4 ; incubation begun. 



Has not found more than 4 eggs, but 2 

 sometimes constitutes a set. 



Has not found any marked eggs, but a set 

 from Iowa is marked with reddish brown. 



Has found incubated eggs on April 28, 

 but usually nests first half of May. 



Charles Wells. No. 45. 



Resident ; common in summer. 



Breeds commonly, in early part of May. 

 Nest 40 feet from ground. 



Eggs measure 1.98 x 1.58. 



Color, light greenish blue. 



C. B. Vandcrcook. No. 77. 



Summer visitant, (i specimen February 

 23, 1891). 



Nests : sets on April 17, 1-3 ; May 3, 1-4 ; 

 May 7, 1-4; May 11, 1-4 ; May 19, 1-3 ; 

 May 17, 1-4 ; May 15, 1-5. July 13, young 

 hathced a few days from pair of May 1 1. 



Nest in water oak plats where the trees 



are very thick and tall, placing the nest 

 against the trunk of the tree from 20 to 80 

 feet from ground. 



Nest made of small sticks, lined with bark 

 and sometimes cornhusks. 



Set usually 4, 3 and 5 being taken. 



Twenty-nine specimens average 1.88 x 

 1.50. 



Largest 2.50 x 1.56 ; smallest 1.80 x 1.42. 



Color, bluish white, some with spots and 

 splashes of reddish brown. 



/. C. Elliot. No. 88. 



Summer visitant. Tolerably common. 



Nests, but not commonly. 



Thinks it nests further north, as it is more 

 common in the spring and fall. 



G. IV. Read en. No. 92. 



Resident. Tolerably common. 



L. E. Baird. No. 95. 



Resident. Common in summer. 



O. Widmanu, Old Orchard, Mo. 



Summer visitant. Common in spring and 

 fall. Comes and goes with the migratory 

 birds. 



Philo Smith, St. Louis. No. 74. 



Resident. Fairly common. 



Nests in May, using old Crows' nests partly 

 made over. 



Sets 4 and 5, usually 4. Two sets spotted 

 with pale brown. 



C. P. Fair, Clark Co., Mo? 



Summer visitant ; not obsened in winter. 



Not common. Nests in dense woods. 



May 14, 1-3 ; nest in white oak, 40 feet 

 up ; composed of twigs, lined with coarse 

 oak bark. Eggs fresh ; greenish white, one 

 spotted with dark brown. 



Copyright, 1893, "by Frank Blake Webster Company. 



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