HARRIS'S HAWK 



Genus Parabuteo Ridgway 



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8. PARABUTEO UNICINCTUS HARRIS I (Audubon). 335. 



Harris's Hawk. 



Field Characters. A large dark colored hawk with red thighs and 

 shoulders. Tail white at base and broadly white tipped. 



Description. Above, dusky brownish or reddish brown with ruf- 

 ous shoulders ; tail black, with white at base and tip. Below, sooty 

 brown, the thighs and linings of wings chestnut. 



Measurements. Length, 18 to 22 inches ; wing, 13 to 14.50 inches; 

 tail, 10 to 11 inches. 



Range. Extreme southern United States. Accidental in Iowa, 

 there being but one record of its occurrence in the state. 



The single Iowa record of this bird of the far southwest is noted 

 by R. M. Anderson in "The Birds of Iowa," as follows : "Its admis- 

 sion to the Iowa list is based upon a single specimen captured in Van 

 Buren County, near Hillsboro. Walter G. Savage writes concerning 

 it, February 25, 1904, 'Nine years ago a trapper caught one in a steel 



Fig. 33. Map showing the distribution in Iowa of Harris's Hawk. 



trap and brought it to me. This is the only one that I can positively 

 identify in our locality. My father took this Hawk and now has a 

 fine painting of it true to nature. It is identical with your descrip- 

 tion and also with Coues'. It is surely a Harris Hawk :' " 



