. Handbook of birds of eastern North America [microform] : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migrations and a brief account of their haunts and habits with introductory chapters on the study of ornithology, how to identify birds and howto collect and preserve birds, their nests, and eggs. Birds; Birds; Birds; Ornithology; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Ornithologie; Ornithologie. '< . I I 1 204 FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, Fio. 70. -Three-notched primaries of Broad-winged Hawk. (Rt;duced.) 343* Buteo latissimus (Wih
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America [microform] : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migrations and a brief account of their haunts and habits with introductory chapters on the study of ornithology, how to identify birds and howto collect and preserve birds, their nests, and eggs. Birds; Birds; Birds; Ornithology; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Ornithologie; Ornithologie. '< . I I 1 204 FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, Fio. 70. -Three-notched primaries of Broad-winged Hawk. (Rt;duced.) 343* Buteo latissimus (Wih.). BnoAD-wiNnEi) Hawk. Ad.— Upper parts dark ^ruyiwh brown or fuscous, more or less with hutfy and rufous; three outer primaries "notched" and without ochraceous-butf markings; tail fus- cous, with two bars and the tip grayish white ; under parts heavily barred with brownish ochrnceous- burt". Im. — Upper parts like the pre- ceding ; tail grayish brown, with three to five indistinct black bars and a narrow whitish tip; under parts white or buffy white, streaked and spotted with fuscous, i L., 15-89 ; W., 10-08; T., 6-75 ; B. from N., -70. 9 L., l(>-7; W., 11-41; T., 7-09. liemarks.—Compared with the other memliers of thi^ genus, the three " notched" primaries and small size are the principal characters of this Hawk. 7i'a«^f.—Breeds tiiroughout eastern ^'orth America, from New Brunswick southward. Wasliington, not common \V. V., rare S. R. Sing Sing, tolerably common S. K., Mcli. 15 to Oct. 23. Cambridge, T. V., sometimes common in Sept.; rare in spring. Nest^i in trees, twenty-five to fifty feet from the ground. Eggs., two to four, dull white or buffy white spotted, blotched, or washed with ochraceous-butf or cinnamon-brown, 2-10 x 1-00. " Of all our Hawks, this species to V)e the most unsuspicious, often allowing a person to approach within a few yards of it, and when startled flies but a short distance before it ali
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