. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . nds to the base of the toes. In color these birds are dusky brown above. The feathers of the head and neck are broadly margined with whitish gray or light buff, and on the back this edging is narrower and not so light. The tail is white or cream color on its basal half. The terminal half has two or more grayish or dusky bars. The under parts vary from white to cream color, streaked and barred all over with dusky markings, often so concentrated as to form a dusky band across the chest. From this phase of color there is a ve
. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . nds to the base of the toes. In color these birds are dusky brown above. The feathers of the head and neck are broadly margined with whitish gray or light buff, and on the back this edging is narrower and not so light. The tail is white or cream color on its basal half. The terminal half has two or more grayish or dusky bars. The under parts vary from white to cream color, streaked and barred all over with dusky markings, often so concentrated as to form a dusky band across the chest. From this phase of color there is a very wide variation toward a dis-tinctly darker plumage, culminating in individuals which are almost or quiteblack, except on the forehead and the basal part of the tail. The nesting sites are on trees or on shelves on cliffs. The eggs varyfrom three to five in number. They are white in color, frequently unmarked, 276 Bird Studies. but oftener washed or spotted with varying shades of brown. They areabout two inches and a fifth long and an inch and three quarters ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. FEATHERING ON FOOT. The Mexican Goshawk is about seventeen inches long, and robustly built. Above the birds are deep bluish ash color, the top of the head and the back of the neck showing blackish or dusky streaks along the Mexican Goshawk, ^j^^j^ ^f ^^^j^ feather. The tail is black, with a narrow Astunna plagiata Schlcgel. . ^ . white tip, and barred by two or more bands ot the samecolor. The feathers covering the base of the tail above and below are rest of the under parts are white barred with deep ash. The birds neston high trees, building much after the manner of Coopers Hawk. The eggsare two or three in number, white in color, very faintly marked with pale red-dish brown. They are about two inches long and an inch and three fifths intheir other diameter. The birds are southern in their distribution, ranging from Panamathrough Mexico and into our southern border, Arizona, etc. The
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