WOODLAND BIRDS. 13 



No. 12. SPARROW HAWK. 



Species: F. sparverius. 



Distribution: 



A common local summer resident of New England, wintering 

 rarely in the southern portions. 



General Plumage: 



Male, upper parts, crown ashen blue, generally marked with 

 chestnut, rest of head white, black marked, tail white 

 marked, black tipped, long wing feathers black, white barred. 

 Female upper parts brown, reddish on tail, black ban-ed ; 

 under parts white, breast butl", streaked with black or brown; 

 larger than male. Bill pale blue, feet yellow. Length about 

 10.00. 



Song and Other Notes: 



Various n®tes and cries. 



Haunts: 



W'oodland and farming lands. 



No. 13. Fish Hawk. OSPREY. 



Genus: Pandion. Species: P. haliastus carolinensis. 



Distribution: 



A common migrant, breeding along the Maine coast and 



about the head waters of Narragansett Bay. 

 Date of Arrival: April first. 

 Date of Departure: Late October. 

 General Plumage: 



Upper parts dark brown, head partially white; under parts 



white, breast marked with brown. Bill black, feet bluish. 



Length about 24.00. 

 Song and Other Notes: 



Piercing and often musical cries, repeated when soaring as to 



form a '' so called song.'' 

 Haunts: 



Inland bodies of water^ but more commonly found near salt 



water. 



