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339. Buteo lineatus lineatus (Gmel.). Red-shouldered Hawk. 



The Red-shouldered Hawk is resident thruout the 



of 

 greater portion of the state but seems to be A very local 



distribution. About Philadelhpia it is very common in 

 winter but is almost unknown as a breeder. Stone, in his 

 "Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey" , states that 

 Dr. W. E. Hughes has found it nesting near Phoenixwille 

 years ago. In general, the Red-shouldered Hawk seems rare s 

 as a breeder thruout the sections of Pennsylvania lying 

 within the Carolinian fauna, grows more in the Alleghanian 

 zone, and breeds quite commonly in the Canadian life zone. 

 Mr. Richard P. Miller found it breeding once near Walnut 

 Hill, Montgomery County. Mr. S. S. Dickey tells me it is 

 rare in Green County, and he has found but one nest. I 

 have no records of its breeding from the central and south- 

 central portions of the state, but thru the northern tier 

 of counties it is a very common breeder, and I have found 

 a number of nests in Wayne, Pike, and Warren Counties. 

 Mr. Simpson writes me of the bird in Warren County, "The 

 commonest breeding hawk found here." 



343. Buteo platypterus platypterus ( Vieill . ) . Broad -winged 

 Hawk. 



The Broad-winged Hawk aeems to have been one of 

 those favored birds that have increased within our 



