Broad-winged Hawk 131 



Broad-winged Hawk. — Buieo platyptems. 14.00 



Uncommon Summer Resident 



Field marks. — Tail dark, with two light bands; under parts 

 brownish, barred with darker shade; upper parts dark 

 brown with infusion of gray. 



This beautiful Hawk is rarely seen near Albany, but it is 

 present in the wooded slopes of the Helderbergs, where it 

 doubtless breeds. It has a very un-hawk-like cry which 

 resembles the notes of the Wood Pewee. 



Nest high in a tree; eggs, two to four, white ground, 

 splashed with brown. 



Red-shouldered Hawk. — Buteo lineatus. 18.35 



Common Permanent Resident 



Field marks. — Lesser wing-coverts bright reddish-brown, in 

 distinct contrast with the darker shades of brown and 

 blackish of the upper parts; four or five bands across 

 tail, which show in flight; under parts buffy, streaked and 

 lightly barred with blackish. 1 



This and the following species are known to the farmers as 

 Hen Hawks, for they sometimes descend upon an unsuspect- 



J The drawing of the Red-shouldered of throwing itself into all sorts of 



Hawk which Mr. Richard has made grotesque attitudes, spreading its 



(Plate XVII) is really a portrait of a tail, expanding its wings downward 



living albino which he kept for some and fluffing up its feathers until it 



time in his laboratory. The bird was resembled a great white ball. Late 



taken near Albany and brought to in the Winter the Hawk became 



Mr. Richard with a single gun-shot sick and it was sent to the happy 



wound through one wing. It was pure hunting ground by means of chloro- 



white throughout, with not a sign of a form. It was mounted and can now 



marking. The eyes were remarkably be seen in the State Museum. Inmak- 



beautiful, the irises being a deep, rich, ing his drawing Mr. Richard has 



translucent blue, and the pupils black. supplied the normal markings from 



The bird soon recovered from its in- another specimen, but the eyes have 



jury and made itself at home, losing been left as in the albino. "It seems 



in a very short time its fierceness, a pity to destroy the facial likeness " 



and roaming at will about the room. observed the artist; and I let it go 



Eventually the bird became tame and at that. Surely cold science should 



would stand on its master's wrist and not claim everything. 

 eat from his hand. The bird was fond 



