. Land birds of northern New York : a pocket guide to common land birds of the St. Lawrence Valley and the lowlands in general of northern New York . rred with black, a broad band of black near thetip; a tuft of broad glossy black feathers on eachside of the neck. Female—Similar, but the neck-tufts smaller and brownish. Commonly called the Partridge. A royal game-bird; its haunt is the deep woods; it rises fromthe ground before you, startling you with the roarof its wings; its flight is swiit, and bullet-like inits course. Its celebrated drumming is a low, mys-terious rumble, heard most regula
. Land birds of northern New York : a pocket guide to common land birds of the St. Lawrence Valley and the lowlands in general of northern New York . rred with black, a broad band of black near thetip; a tuft of broad glossy black feathers on eachside of the neck. Female—Similar, but the neck-tufts smaller and brownish. Commonly called the Partridge. A royal game-bird; its haunt is the deep woods; it rises fromthe ground before you, startling you with the roarof its wings; its flight is swiit, and bullet-like inits course. Its celebrated drumming is a low, mys-terious rumble, heard most regularly near sunriseand sunset in spring, but often also in summer andautumn at all times of day. 300a. Canada Ruffed Grou:e—Bonasa umbel-lus togata. Similar to number 300; but the prevailing colorof upperparts gray; underparts more distinctlybarred; tail generally gray. 332. Sharp-shinned Hawk—Accipiter velox. A small hawk. Length, male ii1/^ inches; fe-male 13^2 inches. Tail nearly square at end; crown like a small edition of number 333, whichsee. Habits similar to number 333, but necessarilypreys mostly on smaller birds. 56. Sparrow Hawk 360. Sparrow Hawk—Falco spar verbis spar-•vcrius. Robin-size. Length 10 inches. Male—Back rufous, barred with black; tailrufous, black band near its end, tip white; head 57 slaty blue, rufous spot on crown; two black markson each side of the head ; under parts buffy, bellyand sides spotted with black; wing-coverts slatyblue; main wing feathers blackish, barred withwhite. Female—Back, tail and wing-covertsrufous, barred with black; head like male; underparts heavily streaked with dark buffy. The small size of this hawk, together with itslong, pointed livings, serves to distinguish it fromthe male Sharp-shin when in flight. It may oftenbe seen on an upper branch in a tall dead tree,where it usually stands bolt upright, its relativelylong tail pointing about straight downward. Itseggs are laid in a hollow tree, usually
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