THE BIEDS OF NEW JERSEY. 161 



Mrs. DrowTi's collection, taken June 25th, 1886, while Professor A. H. 

 Phillips has found a nest on Phillips' meadows, near Princeton.^ 

 Boesley reported it nesting in Cape May county in 1857,- and on May 

 13th, 1900, Mr. Eobert T. Moore^ found a nest at Griscom's Swamp, 

 back of Great Egg Harbor. 



332 Accipiter velox (Wilson). 

 Sharp-shinned Hawk. 



PLATE 30. 



Adtilt male. — Length, 10-11.50. Wing, 6.10-7.10. Above, bluish-gray ; head, 

 darker ; throat and sides of head, white or buffy, with black shaft lines ; rest 

 of under parts, white, thickly barred with rufous ; tail, gray, with several dusky 

 bars. 



Adult female. — Length, 12.50-14. Wing, 7.80-8.80. Similar to male, but 

 browner. 



Young in first year. — -Brown above ; under parts, white, streaked with brown ; 

 tail, grayish-brown, broadly barred with dusky. Younger ( ?) birds have strong 

 rufous edgings above and under parts strongly suffused with buff. 



Nest of sticks in a tree; eggs, three to five, bluish-white, coarsely blotched 

 with chocolate, 1.45 x 1.15. 



Apparently a rather rare breeder in New Jersey, and most plentiful 

 in spring and fall, though present all the year. 



The Sharp-shinned Hawk is a small edition of Cooper's Hawk, and 

 exhibits the same disparity in the size of the male and female. 



It is also, like Cooper's Hawk, destructive to small birds, and I 

 have found the remains of a dozen in a nest occupied by young nearly 

 ready to fly. 



It is one of the few Hawks that are not entitled to protection. 



333 Accipiter cooperi (Bonaparte). 



Coopei^'s Hawk. 



Adult male.— Length. 14-17. Wing, 8.90-9.40. 



Adult female. — Length, 18-20. Wing, 10.10-11. Plumage at all stages simi- 

 lar to the Sharp-shinned Hawk. 



Nest in a tree ; eggs, three to five, pale bluish-white, 1.90 x 1.45. 



* Babson, Birds of Princeton, p. 47. 

 ' Geology of Cape May, p. 138. 

 ' Cassinia, 1908, p. 29. 



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