298 POULTRY AND WILD BIRDS 
360 Sparrow Hawk. Length ro inches. 
A very beautiful little hawk with much chestnut on back and tail; 
wings slaty blue, but the large feathers black and white ; tip of tail white, 
a black band near the white; two conspicuous dark marks on the head; 
under parts buffy. This is our smallest hawk; lives in wooded regions; 
nests in hollow trees; feeds on insects and mice, and occasionally a small 
bird. Call is a rather high, rapidly repeated hilly, killy, killy. Common 
S.R. 
327  Swallow-tailed Kite. RareS.R. 348 Ferruginous Rough-leg. S.R. 
333’ Cooper Hawk. S.R. in a few 349 Golden Eagle. S.R. and P.R. 
localities. Not common. 
334 American Goshawk. Occasional 352 Bald Eagle. S.R. and P.R. 
W.V. Not common. 
337. Red-tailed Hawk. RareS.R. 355 Prairie Falcon. M. 
337a@ Krider Hawk. S.R. 356 Duck Hawk. Rare S.R. 
3376 Western Red-tail. S.R. 357 Pigeon Hawk. Rare M. 
339  Red-shouldered Hawk. S.R. 358 Richardson Pigeon Hawk. 
343  ‘Broad-winged Hawk. S.R. Rare M. 
347@a American Rough-legged Hawk. 364 American Osprey. 
M. 
Owl Family. — The owls are easily distinguished by their frank and 
open countenance. The face is so broad that the eyes look forward in- 
stead of sidewise as in other birds; furthermore, the eyes are surrounded 
by radiating feathers forming a large circular disk that makes them very 
prominent. They are not movable in their sockets and when the bird 
wishes to look in a new direction it has to turn the whole head. Many 
owls have tufts of feathers so placed as to look like horns or ears. The 
plumage of owls is soft and fluffy and their flight noiseless. All except 
the Great Horned Owl are very useful birds, as they feed upon gophers, 
rats, mice, grasshoppers, and other pests. 
“A wise old owl lived in an oak; 
The more he heard the less he spoke; 
The less he spoke the more he heard, 
Why aren’t we all more like this bird?” 
367 Short-eared Owl. Length 14-17 inches. 
A common owl of our prairies, especially of marshy sections. Often 
seen in the daytime flying low over the ground and looking for gophers, 
