. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . black; under parts with numerouslongitudinal stripes, and on the sides with transverse bands of brownish-black;external feathers of the tail palest; broad subterminal band on the tail, obscure orwanting. Toung. — All the rufous parts of the plumage with wider transverse bands ofbro
. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . black; under parts with numerouslongitudinal stripes, and on the sides with transverse bands of brownish-black;external feathers of the tail palest; broad subterminal band on the tail, obscure orwanting. Toung. — All the rufous parts of the plumage with wider transverse bands ofbrownish-black; wing coverts, dark bluish-cinereous, with large circular spotsof black; under parts with longitudinal stripes, and large circular spots of black;iris very dark hazel. Total length, eleven to twelve inches; wing, seven to seven and a hah; tail, fiveto five and a half inches. This beautiful little hawk is a summer inhabitant of allthe New-England States, and, in the more southern districts,a resident throughout the year. It is not a very commonspecies in any but the most northern sections of these 20 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. states, but in those localities it is the most abundant ofthe birds of prey. I can add but little to Wilsons descri|>tion tliat will be of interest: it is as follows : —. Tlie habits and manners of this bird are well known. It fliesrather irreguhxrly, occasionally suspending itself in the air, hover-ing over a particular spot for a minute or two, and then shootingoff in another direction. It j^erches on the top of a dead tree orpole, in the middle of a field or meadow, and, as it alights, shuts itslong wings so suddenly that they seem instantly to disappear: itsits here in an almost perpendicular position, sometimes for an hourait a lime, frequently jerking its tail, and reconnoitring the groundbelow, in every direction, for mice, lizards, &c. It approaches thefarmhouse, ^Jf^rticularly in the morning, skulking about the barn-yard for mice o
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