262 The Falcon-like Birds 



lemmings, and Arctic hares, and in Maine, Mr. Manly Hardy reports having 

 seen one destroy five Ruffed Grouse in a morning, "tearing them to pieces 

 and leaving them." The Goshawk nests in trees, constructing a bulky Crow- 

 like nest, usually welt up from the ground and in the thickest part of the forest; 

 the eggs, which are bluish white and unspotted, number from two to five. 

 The Western Goshawk (A. a. striatulus) occurs in western North America, 

 from Sitka, Alaska, south to California and east to Idaho ; it is dark plumbeous 

 inclining to sooty blackish above and more heavily barred below. The only 

 other North American species is the Mexican Goshawk (A. plagiata), which 

 ranges over middle America to the southern border of the United States. It is 

 smaller than the American species, being only about seventeen inches long, and 

 is slaty gray above, and barred slaty gray and white below. 



