442 Beyer, Allison and Kopman, Birds of Louisiana. [oct^ 



a winter visitor. None of the writers has evidence of its breeding in 

 Louisiana. 



14S. Red-shoi'ldered Hawk {Buteo li neat us). A common winter 

 visitor. 



149. Florida Red-shouldered Hawk {Butco Uneatus alleni). A 

 resident, and the commonest hawk in the State. 



150. Broad-winged Hawk {Buteo platypterus). Chiefly if not entirely 

 a summer visitor, and confined as a breeder to the uplantl regions, espe- 

 cially pinewood sections. Usually makes its appearance in the southern 

 part of the State about the end of March, and disappears in September. 



151. American Rough-legged Hawk {Archibuteo Jagopus sancti- 

 johannis). A rather rare winter visitor. 



152. Golden Eagle {Aquila chrysaetos). A specimen of this bird 

 exhibited in the Mississippi Fish and Game display at the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, in 1904, was recorded by the taxidermist, 

 Mrs. Carrie S. Vaughn, of Natchez, Miss., as having been killed at Jackson, 

 La. 



153. Bald Eagle (Haliaetus leucocephalus). Resident; breeds in 

 various parts of the State, especially near the coast. Several nests were 

 located for a number of years in tall dead cypresses in the swamps on the 

 southern shore of Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. 



154. Duck Hawk {Falco peregrinus anatum). A common winter 

 visitor in some sections, frequenting especially the marshes about the 

 delta of the Mississippi, where it preys largely upon ducks and coots. 



155. Pigeon Hawk {Falco columbarius). A fairly common winter 

 visitor, appearing in the southern part of the State about the middle of 

 September, and remaining until the latter part of March. It is commoner 

 in open localities. 



156. American Sparrow Hawk {Falco sparverius). Resident, except 

 in most of the southern part of the State. It reappears in considerable 

 numbers at the latitude of the coast the latter part of August, and grows 

 very common in September, disappearing from the coast section by the 

 middle of March. It is about equally common in all sections of the State. 



157. Audubon's Caracara {Polyborus cheriway). Restricted to the 

 innuediate coast section, west of the Mississippi River, being faiily common 

 in some localities (Beyer). 



158. American Osprey {Pandian haliaetus carolinensis) . Occurs in 

 nearly all sections of the State, but is most abundant in the southern part, 

 breeding along the coast and about the shores of lakes and inlets. 



159. American Barn Owl {Strix pratitjcola) . Rather generally dis- 

 tributed, but nowhere common. In the sugar districts of Louisiana, the 

 ruins of the oUl-fashioned brick sugar houses frequently provide suitable 

 haunts for this species. 



160. American Long-eared Owl (Asio icilsonianus) . A rather rare 

 winter visitor. A wing-quill of this species was found near Abbeville on 

 June 18, 1904. 



