. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. XXIX. HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 208 primaries are unbarred, and the three outer ones are notched on the inner web; the belly is much blotched and barred with blackish, whitish, and buffy markings. There is a very dark (melanistic) form of this bird, in which the whole plumage is evenly blackish. Of course there are birds of. intermediate colors. The size and the peculiar primaries as above given are distinct enough to fix the species. Length, 10-22; wing, 14f—ITJ;
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. XXIX. HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 208 primaries are unbarred, and the three outer ones are notched on the inner web; the belly is much blotched and barred with blackish, whitish, and buffy markings. There is a very dark (melanistic) form of this bird, in which the whole plumage is evenly blackish. Of course there are birds of. intermediate colors. The size and the peculiar primaries as above given are distinct enough to fix the species. Length, 10-22; wing, 14f—ITJ; tail, 8-10; tarsus, 2|; culraen, f Western Nortli America from Wisconsin, Arkansas, and Texas to tlie Pacific, nortli to tlie Arctic regions, and south to the Argentine Republic; breeding throughout its North American range. Casual to Massachu- setts and Maine. — A broad dark- dark 15. Broad-winged Hawk (343. Buteo latl.^simus) colored hawk, with grayish tail, crossed by two bars; under parts brownish, heavily barred. The primaries are without red- dish markings, and the three outer ones are notched on the inner web. The young has a grayish-brown tail, crossed by three to five indistinct black bars, but has the narrow whitish tip of the adult. A slug- gish, unsuspicious hawk, feeding on in- sects, small mammals, batrachians, and reptiles. Length, 13-17 ; wing, 10-llJ ; tail, 6i-8 ; tar- sus, 21; culmen, |. Eastern North America north to New Brunswick, south to northern South America; breeding throughout its United States range. 16. Short-tailed Hawk (344. Biiteo bra- chyiirus). — A rare, Florida, slaty-gray to Broad-winged Hawk grayish-brown hawk, with all under parts pure white, except some brownish markings on the sides of the breast. The grayish tail is barred with black and narrowly tipped with white. The young has the under parts washed with buffy. This species, like Ko. 14, is found in a very dark. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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