. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . ry or birds taken. They nest in the tallest trees in large patches ofwoods, the nests being made of sticks, weeds, leaves and trash. The eggsnumber from two to four, and are white, sometimes heavily, and sometimessparingly, blotched and spotted witli various shades of brown. Size x 337a. Kriders Hawk. Buteo borealis krideri. Range.—Plains of the United States, north tO; Manitoba. This sub-species is described as lighter on the under
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . ry or birds taken. They nest in the tallest trees in large patches ofwoods, the nests being made of sticks, weeds, leaves and trash. The eggsnumber from two to four, and are white, sometimes heavily, and sometimessparingly, blotched and spotted witli various shades of brown. Size x 337a. Kriders Hawk. Buteo borealis krideri. Range.—Plains of the United States, north tO; Manitoba. This sub-species is described as lighter on the underparts, which are almostimmaculate. Its nesting habits and eggs are the same as those of the pre-ceding. .S37b. Western Red-tail. Buteo borealis calnnis. Range.—Western North America,chiefly west of the Rocky Moun-tains. Tills sub-species varies from theplumage of the eastern Red-tail, toa nearly uniform sooty above andbelow, with the dark red tall cross-ed .by several bands; it is a gener-ally darker variety than the Red-tail. Its nesting habits are thesame and the eggs show the greatvariations in markings that arecoipmon to the eastern White 208 BIRDS OF PREY
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