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birds and broilers to mice, grasshoppers, or 

 snakes. He is too small ever to touch hens. 

 It is difficult for one who has not observed birds 

 to distinguish the Sharp-shinned from the Pigeon- 

 Hawk, or even from the Sparrow-Hawk. There 

 is, however, a characteristic common to both this 

 Hawk and Cooper's Hawk, by which one may 

 become at first suspicious and watchful each 

 has a slender form, being long in proportion to 

 size of body. 



PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION. Male : Upper parts, 

 bluish-gray ; top of head, darker; tail, crossed by several 

 blackish bands, narrowly tipped with white. Lower 

 parts, pure white, crossed with light rufous bars and 

 spots. 



Female : Colors duller. Lower parts, not pure white. 



Permanent resident. 



COOPER'S HAWK. 



Larger bird than Sharp-shinned; length, 14 to 17 

 inches. 



This is the other poultry and bird Hawk. 



DESCRIPTION. Distinguished in color by having top 

 of head black ; sides of head, more or less washed with 

 bluish-gray ; sides of breast, bluish-gray also. The tail 



