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and under parts were spotted and cross-barred with 

 rusty and white. He had a black tail crossed by half 

 a dozen white bars. 



" I am a Hawk of eastern North America, living from 

 the great plains to the Atlantic coast, going northward 



RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 



to the British lands and southward to the warm-watered 

 Gulf of Mexico. I am often called Hen Hawk by those 

 who speak without thinking, but in truth I am not 

 much of a bird-thief, for a good reason. I am a thought- 

 ful bird, with the deliberate flight of a Night Owl, rather 



