THE BIRDS OP NEW JERSEY. 161 



Mrs. Drown's collection, taken June 25th, 1886, while Professor A. H. 

 Phillips has found a nest on Phillips' meadows, near Princeton. 1 

 Beesley reported it nesting in Cape May county in 1857, 2 and on May 

 13th, 1900, Mr. Robert T. Moore 3 found a nest at Griscom's Swamp, 

 back of Great Egg Harbor. ' 



332 Accipiter velox (Wilson). 

 Sharp-shinned Hawk. 



PLATE 30. 



Adult male. Length, 10-11.50. Wing, 6.10-7.10. Above, bluish-gray ; head, 

 darker ; throat and sides of head, white or buffy, with black shaft lines ; rest 

 of under parts, white, thickly barred with rufous ; tail, gray, with several dusky 

 bars. 



Adult female. Length, 12.50-14. Wing, 7.80-8.80. Similar to male, but 

 browner. 



Young in first year. Brown above ; under parts, white, streaked with brown ; 

 tail, grayish-brown, broadly barred with dusky. Younger (?) birds have strong 

 rufous edgings above and under parts strongly suffused with buff. 



Nest of sticks in a tree ; eggs, three to five, bluish-white, coarsely blotched 

 with chocolate, 1.45 x 1.15. 



Apparently a rather rare breeder in New Jersey, and most plentiful 

 in spring and fall, though present all the year. 



The Sharp-shinned Hawk is a small edition of Cooper's Hawk, and 

 exhibits the same disparity in the size of the male and female. 



It is also, like Cooper's Hawk, destructive to small birds, and I 

 have found the remains of a dozen in a nest occupied by young nearly 

 ready to fly. 



It is one of the few Hawks that are not entitled to protection. 



333 Accipiter cooperi (Bonaparte). 

 Cooper's Hawk. 



Adult male. Length, 14-17. Wing, 8.90-9.40. 



Adult female. Length, 18-20. Wing, 10.10-11. Plumage at all stages simi- 

 lar to the Sharp-shinned Hawk. 



Nest in a tree ; eggs, three to five, pale bluish-white, 1.90 x 1.45. 



1 Babson, Birds of Princeton, p. 47. 



2 Geology of Cape May, p. 138. 



3 Cassinia, 1908, p. 29. 



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