. Diseases and enemies of poultry . row. Tree Sparrow, Crow Blackbird. Towhee, Snowbird, Red-winged Blackbiid, Field Sparrow. Wild Turkey, Savanna Sparrow, Wood Duck. Blue Bird, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, English Sparrow. MAMMALS. Opossum. Chipmunk, Gray Rabbit, Red Squirrel, Varying Hare, Common Rat. Field Mice, Woodchuck (young). The stomach contents of Coopers Hawks ex-amined by the writer gave the following result: 18,cliickcTis ,inil pliiiisanls; 12. small birds—sparrows;11* ir 170 warblers, meadow larks, woodpeckers, thriishes; .; 2, doves or domestic pij^eons; 1, bullfrog; :{.mice
. Diseases and enemies of poultry . row. Tree Sparrow, Crow Blackbird. Towhee, Snowbird, Red-winged Blackbiid, Field Sparrow. Wild Turkey, Savanna Sparrow, Wood Duck. Blue Bird, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, English Sparrow. MAMMALS. Opossum. Chipmunk, Gray Rabbit, Red Squirrel, Varying Hare, Common Rat. Field Mice, Woodchuck (young). The stomach contents of Coopers Hawks ex-amined by the writer gave the following result: 18,cliickcTis ,inil pliiiisanls; 12. small birds—sparrows;11* ir 170 warblers, meadow larks, woodpeckers, thriishes; .; 2, doves or domestic pij^eons; 1, bullfrog; :{.mice, rats jind insects; 1, opossum; 1. young wood-chuck and remains of wood duck; 2, hair and otluiremains of .small quadrupeds. .AT LEAST ONE GOOD TRAIT. The Coo|>ers TTawk. sometimes lik< tlip Sharp-shinned species, visits vards and pnrks in towns andvilhiges in (piest of the English Sparrow. a bird whichlias by reason of its pugnacious habits driven many ofour native and beneficial song birds fi-om the habita-tifuis of N GOSHAWK 171 GOSHAWK. Accipiter atricapillus. DESCRIPTION. Adult.—Above dark lead color, with blackish shaft streaks;top of head black; white stripe over eye, and more or lessindistinct about occiput (back of head); tail has four or ftveindistinct blackish bars; ends of tail feathers whitish; lowerparts pale ashy white, with a faint leaden tint, sharplystreaked with blackish and finely mottled or barred with , reddish amber. Immature.—Dark bruwn or grayish above, the feathersedged and spotted with whitish and pale reddish-brown;lower parts yellowish-white and marked with blackish spotsur narrow stripes. Iris yellowish. Length about 25 inches; extent, about 46; tail about V2Vz-Tho male is smaller. Habitat.— Xorthern and eastern North America, breedingmoslly north of the United States. Resident in a few of thehigher and wonded mountainous regions of Pennsylvania. The Goshawk is not common in this State. Usuallythis fierce, powerful an
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