. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . ^ be seenmoving with a heavy flight suggestive of the owls. In speaking of its food habits, Mr. Lyman Belding says that heonce shot one of a pair that had for three years nested less than twohundred yards from a poultry yard, and on examination of itsstomach found only small lizards, tree-frogs, grubs, and insects. When disturbed at its nest. Major Bendire says, the red-belliedgives a shrill yee-ak, yee-ak, repeated rapidly in a high key. 340. Buteo abbreviatus
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . ^ be seenmoving with a heavy flight suggestive of the owls. In speaking of its food habits, Mr. Lyman Belding says that heonce shot one of a pair that had for three years nested less than twohundred yards from a poultry yard, and on examination of itsstomach found only small lizards, tree-frogs, grubs, and insects. When disturbed at its nest. Major Bendire says, the red-belliedgives a shrill yee-ak, yee-ak, repeated rapidly in a high key. 340. Buteo abbreviatus Coh. Zone-tailed Hawk. Adults. — Whole bird uniform black or blackish brown, feathers purewhite at bases; tail crossed hi/ three broad lighter zones, which are gray onouter and white on inner webs of feathers. Young: tail dark grayishbrown instead of black, inner webs sometimes entirely white ; crossed bynumerous black narrow oblique lines. Male: length , , wing , tail Female : length , ; wing , tail , bill . 158 FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. Distribution. — From Southern California to Texas,and south to northern South America. Nest. — On rock cliffs or in eottonwoods nearstreams, made of twigs lined with Spanish moss,green leaves, or inner bark of the Cottonwood. Eggs:1 to 3, pale bluish white, mostly unspotted. Food. — Small mammals, lizards, frogs, and fishes. Major Bendire states that one or two pairs ofthe zone-tailed hawks may usually be found liv-Fig. 229. Tail of Zone- |jjg j^ gg^di ^f ^he larger cottonwood groves ofArizona, but that few are ever found far from thebanks of streams. In southern Texas and New Mexico the hawksfrequent canyons, where they circle about scouring the cliffs, or,mounting high in the air, dive screaming almost to the water in thebottom. Their cry, which is loud and piercing, is said to resoundcommandingly through the canyons. Fifty miles south
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