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Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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heir barrel. Red-tailed Hawk: Buteo borealis. Bed Hawk, Hen Hawk, Length: 19-22 inches ; female, 22-24 inches. jlfaZe and Female: Above dark brown, variegated with white, gray,and tawny ; below whitish and buff, streaked across belly withbrown. Tail rust-red, with a black band near end; in young,tail gray with numerous narrow brown bars. Moderate, horn-coloured bill; feet stout and strong. Season: A common resident. Breeds: Through range. Nest: Built in March, in a tall tree in deep woods. A bulky affair ofsticks with an upper nest; lined with soft bark like the Crows. Eggs: 2-3, dirty white, thickly blotched with purplish brown. Bange: Eastern North America, west to the Great Plains. Owing to different phases of plumage, it is often difficultto identify the larger Hawks on the wing; but the red tailis a distinctive mark of the adults of this species at allseasons. Farmers regard it as a nuisance, and kill it wheneverthey can as a punishment for poultry stealing; but Dr. 218 PLATE 57.
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RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. Length, 18-20 inches. BIRDS OF PREY. Hawks Fisher tliinks it is a mistake to destroy it unless whencaught in the act; as, after careful investigation, it has beenfound that eighty-five per cent of its food is made up ofrodents destructive to agriculture. But still farmers makescare-crows, and, when possible, shoot a Hawk and hang itin the barnyard as a warning. A persevering boy, living on the outskirts of the woodsnear Aspetuck Mills, secured a male Eed-tail and twoyoung, this spring, and I saw them after they had been inconfinement for a week. The nest was in a particularlydangerous location, in the top of a tall hickory, and wasreached by an arrangement of three ladders; a steel trapwas placed over the nest, and the old bird secured in thisway. The male was evidently rearing the young single-handed, his mate having probably been shot; for she didnot answer his cries, and was never seen about the tree. The young, at the time I saw them, May 30, must havebeen abo

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