. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . Marsh Hawk FAM. XXIX. HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 199 the back, and blackish streaks or spotson the wliitish lower parts. This is afearless, swift, low-flying hawk, livingmainly on birds, including poultry. Length, 10-14 ; wing, 7^ (6-9) ; tail, 5-8 ; tar-sus, 2 ; culmen, l- North America, south toPanama; breeding throughout. 7. Coopers Hawk (333. Accljyfter coop-hii).—A hawk similar to the last, butlarger and with a decidedly rounded is a dark-brown hawk, with grayish-
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . Marsh Hawk FAM. XXIX. HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 199 the back, and blackish streaks or spotson the wliitish lower parts. This is afearless, swift, low-flying hawk, livingmainly on birds, including poultry. Length, 10-14 ; wing, 7^ (6-9) ; tail, 5-8 ; tar-sus, 2 ; culmen, l- North America, south toPanama; breeding throughout. 7. Coopers Hawk (333. Accljyfter coop-hii).—A hawk similar to the last, butlarger and with a decidedly rounded is a dark-brown hawk, with grayish-and brownish-spotted under parts. Inhabits and food, it is much like the sharp-shinned hawk. Length, 14-20 ; wing, 9-11 ; tail, 7-10; tarsus,2J ; culmen, 1. North America, soutli to south-ern Mexico ; breeding Sharp-shinned Hawk American Goshawk (334. Accipiter atricaj^Ulns). —A large, dark, slate-col-ored hawk, with grayish, wavy bars on a white ground on all / the lower parts. The head is blackish, and has a white linerover the eye,and the throat and breast are somewhat streaked with blackish. This is one of the strongest and
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