333- Cooper's Hawk — Accipiter cooperi. 



Length, male 15H inches; female 19 inches. 



Upperparts slaty gray; main wing-feathers 

 barred with blackish; tail rounded, ashy gray with 

 blackish bars, white tip; throat white, streaked 

 with blackish; underparts thickly barred with 

 white and buffy or rufous; crown blackish. 



This is a stealthy hawk, nut given to soaring; he 

 stands motionless in a leafy tree, watching for 

 feathered prey; or, if seen going or coming, his 

 manner "means business." Though smaller than 

 the so-called Hen Hawks, this bird is much more 

 destructive to poultry. 



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