. Diseases and enemies of poultry . n says: In the stomach of this bird I found woodfrogs, portions of small snakes, together with feathers, andthe hail- of several small specimens of quadrupeds. ( Vol. I, p. 463.) Mr. J. W. Preston says: Their food consists .of smallsquirrels, frogs, and, in fact, any small quarry easily cap-tured. Never have I known them to molest the poultry.(Ornith. and Oologist, Vol. XIII, 188, p. 20.) Mr. .7. G. Wells, speaking of the bird in the West Indies,says: Numerous; feeds on lizards, rats, snakes, young 190 birds, etc. and occasionallv makes a ra
. Diseases and enemies of poultry . n says: In the stomach of this bird I found woodfrogs, portions of small snakes, together with feathers, andthe hail- of several small specimens of quadrupeds. ( Vol. I, p. 463.) Mr. J. W. Preston says: Their food consists .of smallsquirrels, frogs, and, in fact, any small quarry easily cap-tured. Never have I known them to molest the poultry.(Ornith. and Oologist, Vol. XIII, 188, p. 20.) Mr. .7. G. Wells, speaking of the bird in the West Indies,says: Numerous; feeds on lizards, rats, snakes, young 190 birds, etc. and occasionallv makes a raid on the poultryyard. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. IX. 1886, p. 622.) Dr. F. W. Langdon says: The stomach of a specimen of thishawk tal<en in Madisonville, in April, 1877, contained thet,re3ter part of the ^l<eleton and hair of a small wood mouse(Arvicola austerus), a lizard (Eumeces) about six inches long,and ten or twelve small beetles, with numerous elytra of thesame. (.Toiirn. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. I, p. 116.). T ■1^ O^- ROUGH LEGGED HAWK 101 ROUGH LEGGED lagopus sancti-johannis. DESCRIPTION. Adult male and female: Too variable in plumage to be con-cisely described. In general the whole plumage with darkbrown or blackish and light brown, gray or whitish, thelighter colors edging or barring the individual feathers; ten-dency to excess of the whitish on the head, and to the forma-tion of a dark abdominal zone or area, which may or may notinclude the tibiae: usually a blackish anteorbital and max-illary area. Lining of wings extensively blackish: tail usuallywhite from the base for some distance, then with light anddark barring. The inner webs of the flight feathers ex-tensively white from the base, usually with little, if any, ofthe dark barring so prevalent among buteonine hawks. Fromsuch a light and variegated plumage as this, the bird variesto more or less nearly uniform blackish, in which case the tailis usually barred several times wit
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