. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 209 Mr. Crandall has a set of the eggs of this subspecies taken at Avery's Island, Louis- iana, March 17, 1895. The nest was large and bulky, composed of sticks, twigs, lined with green leaves and moss. The nest was placed in a large white oak tree on the edge of a swamp. The eggs, two in number, measure , respectively. Their ground color is bluish-white, blotched with brown; in one somewhat sparingly over the small end, and in the other specimen sprinkled over the entire surface. 339. RED-SHOULDER
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 209 Mr. Crandall has a set of the eggs of this subspecies taken at Avery's Island, Louis- iana, March 17, 1895. The nest was large and bulky, composed of sticks, twigs, lined with green leaves and moss. The nest was placed in a large white oak tree on the edge of a swamp. The eggs, two in number, measure , respectively. Their ground color is bluish-white, blotched with brown; in one somewhat sparingly over the small end, and in the other specimen sprinkled over the entire surface. 339. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. Buteo liiieutus (Gmel.) Geog. Dist.—East- ern North America, north to Nova Scotia; west to the edge of the Great Plains. This large species is one of the common- est hawks in the United States, and it is especially abundant in winter, from which it receives the name of Winter Falcon, but it is not more hardy than the Red-tail. It also shares the name of Chicken Hawk, commonly applied to all the larger hawks. Only occasionally it visits the barnyard, its diet is of a more humble kind, such as frcgs, rats, mice and small snakes. The nesting of the Red-shouldered Hawk is very much the sftme as that of the Red-tail, but in many sections it seems to have a preference for lower woods, in bottom lands. The nest is said not to be so long re-occupied by the birds. The eggs are usually deposited in April or May. The number of eggs is three or four, some- times only two. The ground color is bluish, yellowish-white, or brownish, spotted, blotched and dotted irregularly with many of reddish-brown; they are usu- ally more highly colored than the eggs of the Red-tail. Some of them are exceed- ingly handsome. A series of sixty-one sets are in Mr. Norris' cabinet, nearly all of which were collected by the celebrated oologist, "J. M. ; (C. L. Rawson); they show a wonderful variation in size and markings, ranging from almost unmarked to very heavily spotted and blot
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