. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . ;d\ repeated rapidly in a high key. 340. Buteo abbreviatus Cnb. Zone tailed Haavk. Adults.— Whdlf hird unifunii black or blackish brown, feathers purewbiti! at bases; ttiil rrossid bfi thret broad lighter zones, which are g:ray onoiiter and wlntc on inner \vel)s of featluTs. Young: t;iil dark grayishbrown instead of hlack, inner webs sometimes entirely white ; bynumerous black narrow ol)n<pie lines. Male: leng-tli ()0, ,
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . ;d\ repeated rapidly in a high key. 340. Buteo abbreviatus Cnb. Zone tailed Haavk. Adults.— Whdlf hird unifunii black or blackish brown, feathers purewbiti! at bases; ttiil rrossid bfi thret broad lighter zones, which are g:ray onoiiter and wlntc on inner \vel)s of featluTs. Young: t;iil dark grayishbrown instead of hlack, inner webs sometimes entirely white ; bynumerous black narrow ol)n<pie lines. Male: leng-tli ()0, , wing- (50, tail ) Female : length , , wing (», tail OOO , hill .00 158 FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. Distribution.— From Southern California to Texas,and south to northern South America. Nest. — On rock cliffs or in cottonwoods nearstreams, made of twigs lined with Spanish moss,green leaves, or inner hark of the Cottonwood. Eggs :L to o, pale bluish wnite, mostly unspotted. Food. — Small mammals, lizards, frogs, and fishes. Major Bendire states that one or two pairs ofthe zone-tailed hawks may usually be found liv-Fig. 22i». Tail of Zone- |jj„. jj^ each of the larger Cottonwood groves ofArizona, but that few are ever found far from thebanks of streams. In southern Texas and New Mexico the hawksfrequent canyons, where they circle about scouring the cliffs, or,mounting high in the air, dive screaming almost to the water in thebottom. Tlieir cry, which is loud and piercing, is said to resoundcommandingly through the canyons. Fifty miles south of the Arizona line Mr. Price encoimtered a lirein the marsh-lands and canebrakes which brought hundreds
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