. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. ' \ 130 BIBDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. or hoggy ground, watching- for small quadrupeds and batrachians, which constitute its |:>rincipal fare. Like other birds of this genus, the Red-shouldered Hawk nests in ti-ees, usually in April and May in this locality. The egg's, two to four in number, are very similar to those of the Red-tail, but smaller. Young birds, which are kno^ai to many as Winter Falcons, are, according to my experience, much more frequently met w
. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. ' \ 130 BIBDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. or hoggy ground, watching- for small quadrupeds and batrachians, which constitute its |:>rincipal fare. Like other birds of this genus, the Red-shouldered Hawk nests in ti-ees, usually in April and May in this locality. The egg's, two to four in number, are very similar to those of the Red-tail, but smaller. Young birds, which are kno^ai to many as Winter Falcons, are, according to my experience, much more frequently met with than full-plumag-ed adults. Nuttall remarks that this hawk lives principally on fro^^s, and probably insects and cray-fish in the winter. Gentry tells us that the food of the young consists of fragments of quadrupeds, besides an im- mense number of young: grasshoppers and beetles. In my examinations of fifty-seven of these hawks which have been captured in Pennsylvania, forty-three showed field-mice, some few other small quadrupeds, grass- hoppers and insects, mostly beetles; nine revealed frogs and insects; two, small birds, remains of small mammals and a few beetles; two, snakes and portions of frogs. The gizzard of one bird contained a few hairs of a field-mouse and some long black hair which appeared very much like that of a skunk. The bird on dissection g-ave a very decided odor of skunk. In two of these hawks, shot in Florida, I found in one portions of a small catfish, and in the other remains of a small mammal and some few coleopterous insects (beetles). Buteo latissimus (Wils.). Broad-winged Hawk. Description (Plate 16, Fiq. i). Length of female about 17 ; extent about 36 ; tail about 1\ inches. ^rf(t/^_Upper parts umber-brown, and many feathers edged with rusty or whitish ; tail crossed by three black and two white bands, and narrow white tip, lower parts white or yellowish white, variously streaked and spotted with rusty. Young are duller, showy dark cheek patche
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