[ 2.02. ] BIRDSOFOREGON 



Mourning Dove and teal. About the nests one usually finds a wide 

 assortment of feathers of the above birds and of meadowlarks, flickers, 

 Sage Thrashers, and robins, although there is often a liberal sprinkling 

 of smaller species also. Because of its wariness and speed it has held its 

 own in eastern Oregon better than many of the other hawks and is still 

 a common permanent resident of the towering rims of most of that part 

 of the State, where it can be seen flying along at tremendous speed on 

 effortless wings. It nests about the rims and lays its eggs in April. The 

 dates of five sets taken by Braly in the past few years, mostly along the 

 Columbia River, vary from April 6 to 2.0, although Patterson took eggs 

 in the Klamath country on May 5 and 8, 19x8. 



In western Oregon it occurs only as an irregular straggler. Johnson 

 (1880) reported one specimen from the Willamette Valley; Jewett (Gabri- 

 elson 1931) saw one near Medford, Jackson County (March i, 19x4), and 

 received one taken at Portland (November 2.7, 1934); and Gabrielson 

 (1931) took one at Eagle Point, Jackson County (November 8, 192.6). 

 There is also a specimen in the Jewett collection taken at the game farm 

 at Corvallis (November 2.6, 192.5), and Walker (19x7) reported three in 

 the Griepentrog collection taken at Salem (November 16, 19x4, December 

 2.5, 192.5, and November 10, 192.6). 



Of two stomachs collected in winter in eastern Oregon, one taken at 

 Arlington contained a domestic pigeon, and one from Pilot Rock, a 

 white-footed mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus gambelit). 



Duck Hawk: 



Falco peregrmus anatum Bonaparte 



DESCRIPTION. "Adults: Sides of head and neck black, in striking contrast to white 

 or buffy of throat and breast; rest of under parts deeper colored and spotted or 

 barred with blackish; top of head sooty black, rest of upper parts slaty blue, lighter on 

 rump, indistinctly barred with dusky; wing quills blackish, inner webs of quills 

 spotted regularly with buffy or yellowish brown; tail blackish, crossed by 8 to 10 

 light grayish bars, and with narrow white tip. Young: under parts yellowish, 

 brown or reddish brown, heavily streaked with dark brown; upper parts blackish, 

 feathers edged with rusty; tail spotted with reddish brown and conspicuously 

 tipped with buffy. Male: length 15.50-18.00, wing 11.30-13.00, tail 6.00-7.50, 

 bill .75-. 80. Female: length 18.2.0, wing 13.00-14.75, tail 6.90-9.00, bill .85-1.00." 

 (Bailey) Nest: Usually on a ledge of rock or in old hawks' nests in trees. Eggs: 

 4, creamy white, spotted with brown or brick red. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Breeds from Alaska, northern Mackenzie, Baffin Island, and 

 west coast of Greenland south to Lower California, central Mexico, Kansas, Mis- 

 souri, Tennessee, and Connecticut. Winters from Vancouver Island, Colorado, 

 Nebraska, Ohio River, New Jersey, and Massachusetts south to West Indies and 

 Panama. In Oregon: Rare permanent resident, likely to be noted in any part of State 

 during migration, but most frequently seen in eastern Oregon. 



