. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . mice,gophers, lizards, and is rarely taken and thenonly under extenuating circum-stances, as when a chick has dis-obeyed its mothers injunctionsand gone too far afield. Red-shouldered Hawks win-ter regularly from about the mid-dle of the state southward andcasually to the Lake shore, but everywhere in diminished numbers. The winter birds are probably from theextreme northern limits of the range, in Ontario; and I have fancied that itwas on this account that they s
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . mice,gophers, lizards, and is rarely taken and thenonly under extenuating circum-stances, as when a chick has dis-obeyed its mothers injunctionsand gone too far afield. Red-shouldered Hawks win-ter regularly from about the mid-dle of the state southward andcasually to the Lake shore, but everywhere in diminished numbers. The winter birds are probably from theextreme northern limits of the range, in Ontario; and I have fancied that itwas on this account that they showed a tendency to temporary albinism, orseasonal whitening of plumage. The return journey is accomplished latein February or early in March, and by the middle of the latter month mostof the Hawks are mated. This has not been accomplished without consider-able aerial evolutions, and much affectionate screaming, such as does creditto these ignoble birds of prey. For the nest an old domicile of the Crow is often pressed into service,but where the birds have little to fear in propria persona, they rear an unpre-. Taken near Youngstown. Photo L. Fordyce. NEST AND EGGS OF THE RED-SHOUtDEREDHAWK 4o8 THE RED-SHOUIvDERED HAWK.
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