. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . :southward to (iuatemala. — A remodeled one of crow, magpie,or squirrel, or if n»nv. made of dry sticks sparselylined with inner l)ark or green leaves ; placedusually in a deusi- <*onifer. about twenty feetfrom the ground. Kjys: 4 or », pale bluish or greenish wbite. fading todull grayish white, most irregularly and heavily blotched. s])otted. andmarbled with brown; in some specimens ground color ahnost bidden byconHueiit brown markings. Food. — Cbit
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . :southward to (iuatemala. — A remodeled one of crow, magpie,or squirrel, or if n»nv. made of dry sticks sparselylined with inner l)ark or green leaves ; placedusually in a deusi- <*onifer. about twenty feetfrom the ground. Kjys: 4 or », pale bluish or greenish wbite. fading todull grayish white, most irregularly and heavily blotched. s])otted. andmarbled with brown; in some specimens ground color ahnost bidden byconHueiit brown markings. Food. — Cbit-Hy birds and young poultry, with a few mice, reptiles,batraciiians. and Among the; hawks tlic sli;ir|) sliimicd is a veritable bu^-liwhackti*.His light body, short wing:s, ami long tail enable him to donble andturn amon under tbe low branches aiul pick bis bird from theground, or dart through the treelops and snatcb (tne in mid air fromthe inidsl of a startled Ironi Hill Urpt. lit .Virri*FiL. •_•_: 152 FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. His small size is so much more than compensated by his audacitythat one bird often becomes the terror of a poultry yard, taking thesmall and half-grown chickens regularly and sometimes killing andeating a full-grown hen of many times its own weight. Vernon Bailey. 333. Accipiter COOperii (Bonap.). Cooper Hawk. Adult male. — Under parts white, heavily spotted and barred with red-dish brown; top of head black contrasted withbluish gray of back ; tail rounded, with 8 or 4black bands and narrow white tip. Adultfemale: upper parts duller and less bluishthan in male ; top of head more brown-ish black; hind neck and sides of headwashed with dull rusty. Young: upperparts dark brown, with rusty edgings andsuggestion of white spotting; under partsstreaked vertically. Male : length 14-17,wing , tail Female:length 18-20, wing , tail Distribution. — Breeds throughout theUnited
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