He «HEN: HAWK”: AND: HOW 
IT WAS PHOTOGRAPHED 
MHE term “hen hawk’? 
AY 
—— includes several hawks, 
ce.) we: 
is a very loose one and 
but more particularly it refers to 
the red-tailed and the red-shoul- 
dered hawks. The red-tailed hawk 
is distinguished from the red- 
shouldered by having the upper 
surface of the tail a rusty red, or 
rufous, with a black band near its 
end and a white tip, while the tail 
of the red-shouldered hawk is very 
dark brown or black with five 
white cross bars; also, the shoulder 
of the latter is a rich rufous. 
The red-tailed hawk is a very magnificent specimen 
of its family. It is one of our most common hawks, 
doing little harm usually, for it feeds principally upon 
small mammals, reptiles, and insects. I cannot agree 
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