343. Buteo platypterus 
BROAD-WINGED HAWK. 14 and 17 inches 
Aduit. Above dark brown; tail barred brown and white, much 
lighter underneath. Below reddish brown, barred and streaked 
with white. Immature. Above dark brown, mottled with 
white; tail faintly barred. Below white, streaked with dark brown. 
A bird of wild, wooded country ; flies in large, unbroker circles ; is 
quiet and sluggish, sometimes seems very tame. 
Note. “A high, shrill, prolonged chee-e-e-e, like a wood pewee.” 
Nest. Usually in a rude old nest of a hawk, squirrel or crow, well 
up a tree in the woods. 
Breeds. Throughout in wooded regions. Common in northern 
portion. 
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