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FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 



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note of tlic Iled-tail is a long-drawn "scjuciiling" whistle, which to 

 my ear suggests the sound i)r<)du(;ed by escupiiig steam. 



"Of 502 stoinaehs examined, 54 contained poultry or game birds; 

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

 reptiles; 47, insects; 8, crawfish; 1, cenliped ; 13, olfal ; and 89 were 

 empty " (Fisher). 



837a. B. b. kvideril Ifuope^. Kkidkk'm Hawk,— Swnilur tu Buteo 

 borealin, but witli much more wliitu in the pluiniige; thu lifud «oim;tiineH 

 iiluioHt entirely white; tiic under i)arts only lij^litly wtreukeil, iukI with tlio 

 bund on tlio belly Hometinies obsolete; the tail in the tul. juile ruloiia, j^en- 

 erully without u terminal bluek band; in the iin., pale rul'ous, or white wiiehed 

 with rutbus, and witli numerou>s l)lu*;Uish burs. A W., lo-uo; T., 'J\")0. 



liaiKje. — " Great iiluins of the United States, from Minnesota to Texas; 

 east irregularly or casually to Iowa and uortliern Illinois" (liendire). 



337cl. B. b. harlani {Aud.). Haiu.an's Hawk, .bi^— Upper parts 

 dark sooty fuscous, the bases of the featliers more or les* barred with gray- 

 ish ; tail closely mottUil with black, fuscous, rufous, and whitish; under part.s 

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

 Ini. — Similar, but the tail barred witii blackisli, grayisii, rutuus, or whitish, 

 tipped with white. $ L., about l'J-00; W., lu'iJO; T., «-^u. 9 L., about '21.DU; 

 W., 17-00; T., (»-25. 



JiuiKje. — "Gulf St^iites and lower Mississipi)i Valley; north (casually) to 

 Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, and Pennsylvania; east to Georgia and Florida" (Ben- 

 dire). 



Pr. William L. Ralph, in Captain Bcndire'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. Tiie call of the 

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

 * Aree-ee-e,' and that of Harlan's Hawk like ' kee-ee-ee-e-e-ee." 



The Western Kedtail (8:i7f>. li. h. caliiruM) hns been recorded from Illi- 

 nois, and one specimen of the Eiropean Bizzaru (336. Buteo buteo) is said to 

 have been taken in Michigan. 



339. Buteo lineatus ( (Itnel.). IiF.i>-sirorr.i>EREi> II awr : Hen Hawk ; 



CnicKEN Hawk. Ad. — U|)por jiarts dark grayish fuscous-brown, more or less 

 edged with rufous, ochraceous - butf. and whitish; four outer primaries 

 "notched," all barred with i)hick and wiute; lesser wing-coverts rufous, 

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

 five white cross-bars and a white tip; throat streaked with Ijlackish ; rest of 

 under parts rufous or ochraceous- buff, ovorywhere barred with white or 

 wlutish. //w.— Upper parts much as in tiie .tdult; i)usal part of the primaries 

 mostly oclraceottS'buf, fmling to whitish on the inner web, with broken bars 

 of fuscous, lesser wing-coverts conspicuously mari/iiuHl with rufous or rufous- 

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



