. Birds of North Carolina . , or both; shape, ashort ovate, size x The Broad-winged Hawk is distinctly beneficial, feeding on small mammals, suchas mice and shrews; also on small reptiles, frogs, and the larvse of large are seldom, if ever, known to destroy bird-hfe. Genus Archibuteo (Brehm)153. Archibuteo lagcpus sancti-johannis [GmeL). Rough-legged Hawk. Description.—Chiefly whitish, streiikod witli rusty, but varying from this into a form wherethe plumage is entirely black. L., ; W., ;T., Range.—North America north of Mexico, breeding far
. Birds of North Carolina . , or both; shape, ashort ovate, size x The Broad-winged Hawk is distinctly beneficial, feeding on small mammals, suchas mice and shrews; also on small reptiles, frogs, and the larvse of large are seldom, if ever, known to destroy bird-hfe. Genus Archibuteo (Brehm)153. Archibuteo lagcpus sancti-johannis [GmeL). Rough-legged Hawk. Description.—Chiefly whitish, streiikod witli rusty, but varying from this into a form wherethe plumage is entirely black. L., ; W., ;T., Range.—North America north of Mexico, breeding far in North Carolina.—Rare transient in the mountains. 170 BiHDs OF I^oinii The Rough-legged Hawk was recorded by Cairns as occasionally seen in winterand s]iring in Buncombe County. Besides this, our only record is from BlowingBock, Watauga County, near wliich place one was seen Sejiteinljer 10, 1908, atclose range with au opera-glass by Z. P. Mctcalt. He states that this individualwas of very dark FuJ. 12!>. lioL Gii-LK(i<iKii Hawk. Genus Aquila (Briss.)154. Aquila chrysaietos (Linn.). Ooldex E.\gle. Description.—Cildssy dm-k brown, lu-iid and neck paler fawny l)rown. Lcnfitli about throefeet, spread of win^s nearly .seven feet; weifjlit seven or eiifbt pounds. dislinRuislied whenat close range from the inniiature Bald ICaple by the fact that feathers grow on the ankles andfeet entirely down to the toes. Its bill is also shorter. I,., to :5.).()(); W., to linnge.—Northern jjortions of Europe, .Vsia, and .Vmerica, eliiefly in mountainous refjions. Range in NuTlh CaroUiKi.—Mountainous regions of the State, at all seasons; rare in the The CJolden Eagle, which is perhaps our hnest l)ird of |)rey. lias been cunsidereduntil recently as confined in this State largely to the mountains, in which regionCairns recorded it as quite common for so large a bird. The State Museum receivedspecimens from Cherokee
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