12 HAWKS 



The Red-tail resembles the Red-shoulder in general 

 habits, but it is more a bird of the fields, where it may be 

 seen perched on the limb of a dead tree or similar exposed 

 situation. Its note, a long-drawn, squealing whistle, is 

 quite unlike that of the Red-shoulder. The Red-tail 

 feeds chiefly on mice and other small mammals. With 

 the Red-shoulder it is often called 'Chicken Hawk,' but 

 does not deserve the name. It nests in trees 30-70 feet 

 up and in April lays 2-4 eggs, dull white sparingly marked 

 with brown. 



^RED-SHOULDERED HAWK 



Buteo lineatus lineatus. Case 1, Fig. 4; Case 3, Fig. 12 



Seen from below the reddish brown underparts and black and 

 white barred tail will identify adults of this species. Immature 



Rbd-shouldeeed Hawk. Adult. 



Note theJBarred Tail. 



birds are streaked below with blackish; the tail is dark grayish 

 brown indistinctly barred, but the shoulder is always rusty, 

 though this is not a marking one can see in life. L., male, i8i; 

 female, 2oi. 



Range. Eastern North America from northern Florida to 

 Canada; resident except in the northern part of its ranee. 



