. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. EAGLES, HAWKS, AND KITES 77 streaked with dusky and brown; lores, whitish; a diffused but strongly marked mustache from gape to breast but throat white; breast, pale yellowish-brown shading into whitish under coverts, thickly traversed on breast with broad arrowhead bars of reddish-l)rown, these bars wider on sides and Hanks, narrower on thigh leathers, and each with a central dark shaft line; greater coverts edged with rufous or raw umber; bill, dark horn color ; cere and feet, yellow ; claws, black; iris, deep brown. Young: Above, blackish-brown v
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. EAGLES, HAWKS, AND KITES 77 streaked with dusky and brown; lores, whitish; a diffused but strongly marked mustache from gape to breast but throat white; breast, pale yellowish-brown shading into whitish under coverts, thickly traversed on breast with broad arrowhead bars of reddish-l)rown, these bars wider on sides and Hanks, narrower on thigh leathers, and each with a central dark shaft line; greater coverts edged with rufous or raw umber; bill, dark horn color ; cere and feet, yellow ; claws, black; iris, deep brown. Young: Above, blackish-brown vari- egated with raw umber, chestnut, or dull whitish edg- ings to all feathers ; streaks above and behind eye and sides of head, pale yellowish-brown streaked with brownish ; throat, white as in adult; under parts, yellow- ish-white vvitli a tinge of tawny, boldly marked on sides and flanks with longitudinal drop- and arrowhead- shaped dark brown spots, center line of breast and abdomen with a few narrow streaks or plain ; tail, dark brown crossed with 6 or 8 lighter bars on both webs of middle leathers, on outer webs of the others; all tail-feathers tipped with white. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: Usually placed in the crotches of trees from 10 to 8o feet above ground; roughly and coarsely constructed of sticks and bits of bark and lined with small roots, bark strips, moss, or feathers and sometimes decorated with green sprigs. Kggs : 2 to 5, usually 2 or 3. very pale greenish or grayish-white heavily marked with brown spots. Distribution.— Eastern North .'Xmerica; breeds from central ."Mljcrta. southeastern Saskatchewan, northern Ontario, New Brunswick, and Cape Breton Island south to the Gulf coast and central Texas, mainly east of the Mississippi; winters from the Ohio and Delaware valleys south to Venezuela and Peru. Tlie Broad-winged Hawk a common though locally dislril)uted Hawk, partial to deep woods. It will remain motionless for hours, apparently asleep hut in r
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