. Handbook of birds of eastern North America : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migration ... Birds. 202 FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. the basal half with more or less rufous, the inner webs of the feathers with sometimes white bars; under parts white or whitish, streaked or spotted with black or blackish, the legs sometimes barred with rufous, i L., 18'30; W., 12-50; T., 8-00; B. from N., -75. 9 L., 20-35: W., 13-50; T., Fig. 69.—Four-notched primaries of Red-shouldered Hawk. (Reduced.) Bemarhs.—Adults of this species ma
. Handbook of birds of eastern North America : with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migration ... Birds. 202 FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. the basal half with more or less rufous, the inner webs of the feathers with sometimes white bars; under parts white or whitish, streaked or spotted with black or blackish, the legs sometimes barred with rufous, i L., 18'30; W., 12-50; T., 8-00; B. from N., -75. 9 L., 20-35: W., 13-50; T., Fig. 69.—Four-notched primaries of Red-shouldered Hawk. (Reduced.) Bemarhs.—Adults of this species may always be known by the rich rufous lesser wing-coverts. Immature birds are sometimes confused with the young of the Eed-tailed or Broad-winged Hawks. From the former they may be distinguished by their small size, rufous margins of the lesser wing-coverts ochraceoua-buff markings on the primaries, and the continuously streaked under parts; from the latter they diifer in having four instead of three outer primaries " notched," in being larger, and in having ochraceous-buif on the primaries. Mange.—Eastern North America, north to Nova Scotia and Manitoba; resi- dent nearly throughout its range. Washington, common P. E. Sing Sing, common P. E. Cambridge, com- mon P. E., less common in winter. Nest, in trees, thirty to sixty feet from the ground. Hggs, three to six, dull white, generally more or less sprinkled, spotted, or blotched with cinna- mon-brown or chocolate, 2-15 x 1-65. The present species and the Red-tailed Hawk are the birds to which the names Chicken Hawk and Hen Hawk are most frequently misap- plied. Being both common species whose habits render them easily observed, they are often unjustly made to suffer for the sins of their bird-killing relatives of the genus Accipiter. The farmer sees a Hawk sailing in -wide circles above him, uttering its fierce, screaming cry of kei-you, hei-you. While he is watching it a sly, Accipiter slips by him
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