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A ME RICA N ORNI THOL OGY. 



RED-TAILED HAWK. 



woods. It is a rather shallow platform of sticks and lined with twigs, 

 grasses, moss or anything that it may happen to pick up. The eggs 

 are laid according to the locality from the latter part of March until the 

 end of May. The eggs are a bluish-white in color and vary greatly in 

 markings. Some are unmarked, and others faintly, while still others 

 will be heavily dashed, blotched and spotted with varying shades of 

 brown. They lay from two to four eggs, the former number being 

 much more common than the latter. 



HABITS. 

 A bold, powerful and handsome hawk, this species is capable of 



