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note of tli<- U"l-tail is a long-drawn "squealing" whistle, which to 

 my ear suggests the pound produced by escaping steam. 



Of 582 stomachs examined, 54 contained poultry or game birds; 

 51, other birds; 278, mice; 131, other mammals; 37, batrachians or 

 reptiles ; 47, insects ; 8, crawfish ; 1, centiped ; 13, offal ; and 80 were 

 empty " (Fisher). 



337a~ B. b. kriderii //</<*. KRII>ER'B HAWK. Similar to fivUo 

 bonali*, but with muoh tiioro white in the plumage; the head sometime* 

 almost fiitirrly whito; the un-l.-r parts only lightly streaked, and with the 

 band on the belly sometimes obsolete ; the tail in the ad. pale rufous, gen- 

 erally without a terminal black band ; in thu iin., pale rufous, or white washed 

 with rufoUK, and with numerous blackish bars. 4 W., 151)0; T., 9-50. 



Sbmgt u Great plains of the United States, from Minnesota to Texas; 

 cant irregularly <>r i-u.-uully to Iowa and northern Illinois" (Bendire). 



337<L B. b. harlani (AuJ.). HARLAN'S HAWK. Ad. Upper parts 

 dark sooty fuscous, the bases of the feathcre more or less barred with gray- 

 ish ; tail closely nwttUd with black; fuscous, rufous, and whitish ; under parts 

 varying from white more or less spotted across the belly to sooty fuscous. 

 7m. Similar, but the tail barred with blackish, grayish, rufous, or whitish, 

 tipped with white. 6 L., about 19-00; W., 15-50; T., 8*25. 9 L., about 31.00; 

 W., 17-00; T., -26. 



Rnmjt. "Gulf States and lower Mississippi Valley; north (casually) to 

 Kanirat. Iowa, Illinois, and 1'unnxylvania; east to Georgia and Florida" (Ben- 

 dire). 



Dr. William L. Ralph, in Captain Bendire's Life Histories of North 

 American Birds (p. 218), reports this species as not uncommon during 

 the winter in St. John's and Putnam Counties, Florida. He writes: 

 " They are exactly like the Red-tailed Hawks except in color, and their 

 call-note is the same, only being longer drawn out The call of the 

 latter bird, as already stated, rounds like the squealing of a pig, or 

 'kte-ee-e,' and that of Harbin's Hawk like ' kef-ce-ee-e-e-ee." 



The WESTERN KEDTAIL (SS7b. B. J. ealuriu) has been recorded from Illi- 

 nois, and one specimen of the EUROPEAN BUZZARD (336. KvUo butfo) is said to 

 have been takon in Michigan. 



339. Buteo lineatus > /Vr/i*/.). REn-snori-nEREn HAWK; HEN HAWK; 

 CHIC-KEN HAWK. Ad. Upper parts dark grayish fuxcoux-hrnwn, more or less 

 edged with rufous, ochraccous - huff, and whitish ; four outer primaries 

 " n^ti-hcd," all banvd with black and mhite; lesser wing-covcrta ry/Vm, 

 forming a conspicuous "shoulder" patch ; tail black or fuscous, with four or 

 five white cross-bars and a whit.- tip ; throat streaked with blackish ; rest of 

 under parts rufous or ochraccous-bufl*. everywhere barred with white or 

 whitish. An. Up|x>r |>art much as in the adult; basal part of the primaricw 

 mostly Oi-braffotu t>uf, fading to whitish on the inner web. with hn>ken bars 

 of fuscous: lesser wing-coverts c-..M-].i.-iii>u!y manrincd with rufous or rufous- 

 chestnut; tail dark grayish brown, indistinctly barred with fuscous, and on 



