RED-BELLIED HAWK. 
339b. Buteo Hneatus elegans. 39 inches. 
These birds are darker in color than the Red-shouldered 
Hawk of the East, and in their habits very much resemble 
the Red-tail; for food they prefer the large variety of small 
rodents and rarely disturb poultry or birds. The underparts 
are a bright reddish brown, without bars. They may be found 
covering the same territory as the Red-tail on the Pacific Coast 
west of the Rockies from British Columbia south to Lower 
California. 
Nest. —Is made of twigs lined with rootlets and leaves and 
feathers. They lay from two to four eggs of a white color 
spotted and blotched all over with a light shade of brown 
and lilac (2.15x1.75). 
ZONE-TAILED HAWK. 
340. Buteo abbreviotus. 19 inches. 
This whole bird is black, with the exception of the tail, 
which has three wide bands of white and the ends of the tail 
feathers tipped with white. Like others of the Buteo family 
they feed almost entirely on the small rodents, which they 
find in abundance in the marsh and prairie, or in the low 
brush. Eggs, two to four, white, faintly spotted with light 
chestnut (2.15x1.75). 
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