. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. FAM. XXIX. HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 201 bars. Four of the outer primaries are notched on the inner web, and the shoulders are not marked with reddish. Its food consists mainly of small quadrupeds, but it will not refuse birds, insects, or reptiles. (Hen Hawk ; Chicken Hawk.) Length, 19-25 ; wing, 131-17^; tail, 8|-10|; tarsus, 3 ; culmen, H. North America from the Plains eastward, south to eastern Mexico; breeding about throughout. Krider's Hawk (337a. B. b. kr
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. FAM. XXIX. HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 201 bars. Four of the outer primaries are notched on the inner web, and the shoulders are not marked with reddish. Its food consists mainly of small quadrupeds, but it will not refuse birds, insects, or reptiles. (Hen Hawk ; Chicken Hawk.) Length, 19-25 ; wing, 131-17^; tail, 8|-10|; tarsus, 3 ; culmen, H. North America from the Plains eastward, south to eastern Mexico; breeding about throughout. Krider's Hawk (337a. B. b. kriderii) of Minnesota to Texas and westward (casual in -Iowa and Illinois) is a light-colored form, pure white below and with the tail bar nearly lost. Western Red-tail (337b. B. b. calurus) of North America, west of the Rocky Mountains (casual in Illinois), is a nearly evenly colored, dark chocolate-brown hawk, with the red tail crossed by several black bars. Harlan's Hawk (337d. B. b. harlani) of the Gulf States (casually north to Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Kansas) is nearly uniform black, with the tail rather longitudinally mottled with dusky and white, and having more or less of the red tinge and the zone of black near the tip. (Black Warrior.) 11. Red-shouldered Hawk (339. Biiteo linecitus).—A common hawk, with much brownish-red on head, shoulders, breast, and belly. The tail and primaries are black, with broad bars of white. The throat is streaked with blackish, and the breast and belly are much barred with white or whitish. The young is very different and hard to determine; above plain, dark brown, with little indication of the red shoulders; head, neck, and under parts are nearly white, fully streaked with dark brown; tail and wing quills brown, crossed with many in- distinct, lighter and darker bars. Four primaries are notched on the inner web. This is a bird of well-watered woods, living on small quadrupeds, insects, and reptiles, in the order given. (Misap- plied names
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