RED-SHOULDERED HAWK 
339. Buteo lineatus. 19 in. 
Adults with the shoulders bright reddish-brown; 
primaries and secondaries barred with black and white; 
below buffy thickly barred with rusty-brown. Young 
with the shoulders duller; underparts white, streaked 
all over with blackish-brown. This is one of the most 
abundant of the birds of prey in Eastern United States, 
and it is also one of the most useful, destroying quan- 
tities of moles and field mice, as well as grasshoppers. 
Usually one or more pairs will be found in a piece of 
woods. One pair that I know, and I presume it is 
the same pair, each year has its nest on the edge of a 
colony of Black-crowned Night Herons and, during the 
season, they live and feed their young largely upon the 
young of these birds. 
| Nest.—Of sticks, lined with weeds and strips of bark; 
eges white, blotched with brown (2.15 x 1.75). April, 
i May. 
Range.—Breeds from the Gulf to Maine and Minne- 
sota. 339a. Fla. Red-Shouldered Hawk, found in Flor- 
ida and north to So. Car., is paler colored. 
