. The oist . Expressor Postofflce Money Order, Registered Letter orPostal Note. Unused U. S. Postage Stamps ofany denomination wUl be accepted for sums un-der one dallar. Make Money Orders and Draftspayable and address all subscriptions and com-munications to FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. ENTERED AT P. O., ALBION, N. Y. AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER. The Western Red tailed Hawk. [Buteo borealis calurus.) To Raptorial birds, especially suchspecies as partake of the nature of theVultures and other carrion eaters in their habits, Southern California of-fers, next to the countries of the To
. The oist . Expressor Postofflce Money Order, Registered Letter orPostal Note. Unused U. S. Postage Stamps ofany denomination wUl be accepted for sums un-der one dallar. Make Money Orders and Draftspayable and address all subscriptions and com-munications to FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. ENTERED AT P. O., ALBION, N. Y. AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER. The Western Red tailed Hawk. [Buteo borealis calurus.) To Raptorial birds, especially suchspecies as partake of the nature of theVultures and other carrion eaters in their habits, Southern California of-fers, next to the countries of the Torridzone, most ideal conditions, both cli-matic and geographical, for the rearingof their young. The rains of the win-ter equinox have usually abated by thelast week of March, so that Hawks,Crows, and others of the larger birdswhich occupy open nests can by thattime or earlier have their last yearshomes renovated or if these be destroy-ed or occupied by some hardier Owl,be well started on the construction of. EGGS or THE WESTSBN RED-TAILED HAWK. (From a set in the authors collection.) new ones. Occasionally, as was thecase this season (1901) heavier rainscame on just about the time these birdshad begun to deposit their eggs andtheir nidification was correspondinglyretarded. Orange county, where my home andprincipal collecting grounds have been 70 THE OOLOGIST for the past several years, is very near-ly in the ^center of the seven countieslying south of the Tehichapi Mountainswhich are known as Southern Californ-ia. It has some frontage on the PacificOcean, though no ports or wateringplaces of importance are located on itscoast line. Oa its south eastern borderhills come down to the sea and thencerunning north, north west they form amoderately well wooded boundary alongits northern line. Otherwise thecounty is about equally divided betweenlevel cultivated lowland and the rollingbarley fields of the mesas. In the heart of the hills before men-tioned there are numerous large ranch
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