FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLKS, ETC. 



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"Of 220 stomachs cxamiiiod, '] oontiiiiuMl poultry; 12, other hinls; 

 102, mice; 40, othor miimmals; 20, ri'ptilt's; IW, liutrachiaiis; !)2, in- 

 sects; 10, spiders; 7, crawfisli ; 1, earthworms; 2, otral ; '3, tish ; mid 

 14 were einitty " (Fisher). 



839a« B. 1. allenl Uiihjif. Fi.oiuda UKi)-!«ii<)ri.i)KUEi> Hawk.— Ailults 

 of tliirt sjHH'ii's may ca.sily \>v (listiii^rui^lii'il from tlioso ut' //. linfutuH hy tht-ir 

 smnller sizf, j,'rayisli white hrad, with hhiok sliat't stri'ai\s and no nit'cuis, tlio 

 Biiiftlier fusi'uus tii's on the seaj>uhirs and intiTsoapiihiri*, whieh do iint eon- 

 ceal tlie iwiiy ^ray buwes of tlio leathers, t)y tlie whilirtii or ^jrayish elieekH 

 and throat, and the oeliraeeoiis-biitf, indistinetly l)arretl under parts, liii- 

 niaturo liirds are very similar to tliose of />'. li/iiatux, and eaii he distin- 

 guished only by their smaller size und darker eolor. i W., IIUU; T., "iO; 

 B., l-'20. 



liditge. — Floriila, nnrtli alon;,' the Atlantic coast to South Carolino, west 

 alonjj the Gulf coast to ea.stern Texas. 



348< Buteo swainsoni /<'i9»'f/7. Swain-sonV Hawk. .!>/. j .^I'ppcr 

 parts fu.scous-hruwn, more or less niar^'iiu'd with rufous or l)Utl'y ; prinuiries 

 unbarred, thrte outer ones "notched"; tail ^lifrhtly ^jrayer than the back, 

 with numerous indistinct, blackish bars showin^r moiv phiiidy on the uiuler 

 surface; breast coveri'd by a \ary:c, cin,ii(tiiiiiii-nt/(/us jmti h ; bfUy white or 

 ocliraceous-butl', streaked, spotted, or barred with blackish, rufous, or butf. 

 Ad. 9 . — Similar, but larj,'er, the hreast patch of the same color as the back. 

 S and 9 in dark or melon intic jdiimmje. — Entire plnmaj^e fuscous, the under 

 tail- and under win<r-coverts and the tail sometimes spotted or barred, /in. — 

 Upper parts fuscous-brown, widely nuirtrined with buHy and rufous; base of 

 the primaries jj^rayish, and .sometimes with a few broken bars; tail much as in 

 the ad. ; under parts ochnicious-huf, spotted and streaketl with blackish. & L., 

 20-00; \V., 15-00; T., 8-r)0; H. from N., -75. 



KemarkK. — lietwcen the li<rht and dark phases of coloration there is every 

 degree of intergradatiun, but in any phmui.t,'f this Hawk may be distinfjuished 

 from our other species by liavinj,' oidy three oiiter primaries notched. In this 

 respect it a},'rees with />'. lutifntimiis, from which, however, it ditlt-rs ilecidedly 

 both in size and eolor. 



liange. — Western North America, eastward to the Mississippi; l)reedH 

 from Texas to the arctic regions, and occasionally strays eastward to the At- 

 hmtic States. 



Ke«t, in trees, tliirty to ciglity feet from the ground. AV/f/^, two to three, 

 varying from dull bluish white to creamy white, .sometimes uinnarked, but 

 generally more or less spotted or blotched with sliades of einiuunon-l)rown, 

 2-30 :< 1-72. 



Swainson's Hawk is of rare occurrence east of the ]\Iississippi. Dr. 

 Fisher writes: "By preference it frequents the timber in the vicinity 

 of streams, tliough often it is found far out on the prairie, where its 

 only perch the earth mound of some mammal, or some other 

 slightlv elevated knoll." 



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