Elementary zoology (1902) Elementary zoology elementaryzoolog00kell Year: 1902 352 ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY buzzard {Cathartes aura) is the most familiar of the three species of carrion-feeding Raptores found in the United States. The buzzard nests on the ground or in hollow stumps or logs, and lays two white eggs (sometimes only one) blotched with brown and purplish. The largest North American vulture is the California condor {Psendo- grypJius californiamis), which attains a length of four and one-half feet, with a spread of wing of nine and one-half Fig. —Screech-owl, Megascops asio. (Pho
Elementary zoology (1902) Elementary zoology elementaryzoolog00kell Year: 1902 352 ELEMENTARY ZOOLOGY buzzard {Cathartes aura) is the most familiar of the three species of carrion-feeding Raptores found in the United States. The buzzard nests on the ground or in hollow stumps or logs, and lays two white eggs (sometimes only one) blotched with brown and purplish. The largest North American vulture is the California condor {Psendo- grypJius californiamis), which attains a length of four and one-half feet, with a spread of wing of nine and one-half Fig. —Screech-owl, Megascops asio. (Photograph by A. L, Princetorr permission of Macmillan Co.) feet. Of the eagles, the most widespread and commonest is the bald eagle {Halicetus leucocephalus). It is three feet long and when adult has the head and neck wrhite. The golden eagle {Aquila cJiryscetos) has the neck and head tawny brown. Of the many species of hawks, the marsh harrier {Circus hudsonins), abundant all 'over the country and readily known by its white rump, is one of
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