. American birds, studied and photographed from life . Grosbeak babies. A Family of Grosbeaks 53 Black-headed Grosbeak (ZameloJia melanocephala): Male, upperparts black with brown collar and brown on rump; two white wing-bars; throat and under parts, rich orange-brown, changing to lemon-yellow on belly and under wings. Female, plain brown color, sidesstreaked; collar and wing-bars, dull white; yellowish on belly andunder wings. Inhabits western United States. Nest and eggs similarto Rose-breasted Grosbeak. THE RED-TAILED HAWK. A tuU-grown young tail uiul of a ( arp slunviiig in
. American birds, studied and photographed from life . Grosbeak babies. A Family of Grosbeaks 53 Black-headed Grosbeak (ZameloJia melanocephala): Male, upperparts black with brown collar and brown on rump; two white wing-bars; throat and under parts, rich orange-brown, changing to lemon-yellow on belly and under wings. Female, plain brown color, sidesstreaked; collar and wing-bars, dull white; yellowish on belly andunder wings. Inhabits western United States. Nest and eggs similarto Rose-breasted Grosbeak. THE RED-TAILED HAWK. A tuU-grown young tail uiul of a ( arp slunviiig in tlie iicst. VITHE RED-TAILED HAWK THAT chicken-hawks got a nest somewhere down inthem cottonwoods; hes been round there everyyear nigh as long as I can remember. Hes never pesteredany of my chickens, so I dont pester him, replied the oldfarmer, who had taken us out behind the barn to a littleknoll where we could see the grove of cottonwood treesand the old hawk circling above them. This was in the summer of 1898 while we were pass-ing up the south bank of the Columbia River on a hunt-ing trip. We searched the woods at the time but wereunable to find the aerie. A year later we happened to bein that vicinity early in the springtime before the treeshad leaved out and made a careful search for the hawksnest. It was near the top of one of the tallest trees,and one look sufficed to give us both the same opinion:the nest was beyond human reach. The Red-tailed Hawk {Buteo borealis) is perhapsthe best known of the larger birds
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