. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. TUB 8HARP-6UINNK0 HAWK. 81 blotohes aiul inarkingH of a sliade darker than tlio ground- color of tho egg. A grout miinlx.'r of HpecinioiiH in my col- lection cxhil)it a variation in diinmisionH of fVom inch to 2 incl»08 in length, by from inch to iit breadth. Tho average dimensions are
. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. TUB 8HARP-6UINNK0 HAWK. 81 blotohes aiul inarkingH of a sliade darker than tlio ground- color of tho egg. A grout miinlx.'r of HpecinioiiH in my col- lection cxhil)it a variation in diinmisionH of fVom inch to 2 incl»08 in length, by from inch to iit breadth. Tho average dimensions are about inch by 1,52 inch. Tho breeding season varies considerably with this species, even in the same latitude. 1 have found nests with eggs an early us tho fust week in May, and as late as the first week in June. Usually the eggs are laid before the 20th of May in MassachuHOtts. Tho season for the northern district of Now England seems to bo from ono to two weeks later than this ; that of tho southern district, about a week (jarlier. A pair of birds that nested in Newton, Mass., in tho summer of 1806, wore robbed of their eggs four times in tho season. They built different nests in tho same grove, and laid in tho four litters four, four, five, and three eggs respectively. Tho eggs of the last littor were very small; but little larger than tho eggs of the Sharp-shiiuied Hawk. ICOIMTES FUSCOS. — / The SharpHihiiuied Hawk.— Fakofuiau et dubiui, Gm. Syst. Nat, I. 280, 281 (1788). Acci/nter Uriiitut, Vieillot. Ois. d'Am. Sept., I. 43 (1807). Falco vclvx et Penntylmniau, Wilson. Am. Orn., V. 116, and VI. p. 13 (1812). Sparvitu lineatut, Vieillot. Ency. Meth., III. 1260 (1823). yi$u* M't{/ini, Losgon. Traite d'Om., I. 68 (1831). Description. Adult. —SmaW; toil rather long; legs and toes slender; entire upper part* brownish-block, tinged with ashy; occiput mixed with white; throat and under tail coverts white, tho lormerwith lines of black oi. tho shafts of tho feath
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