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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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er Hawks in North America. The larger i)ernicious Falconsare generally far less common than the Accipiters, and the Buzzard Hawksand Marsh Hawks are generally more useful than injurious to man. The Shar))-shinned Hawk is larger than either the Sj)arrow Hawk or thePigeon-Hawk, and is rather longer and slimmer. Specimens average a littleover a fool in length. The largest specimens are about two inches smaller thanthe smallest specimens of the Coopers Hawk. The plumage at full maturityis usually slaty or bluish gray above; the under j)arts are whitish, barred andmarked with reddish. Immature birds are brown above and streaked with darkbrown or reddish brown below. The tail is sfjuare-tippcd and somewhat heavilybarred. The distribution of this Hawk is nearly co-extensive with theRange continent of North America. It l)reetls ihrougliout most of the United States and Canada, and winters from the latitude of Massa-chusetts to Central America. In Se))tember, numbers of these Hawks may be (94)
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SHARP-SHINNED HAWK(Right Hand Figure. Immature Female: Left Hand Figure. Adult Male)Order—Raptores Family—Falconid^ Genus—Acci PITER Species—Velox The Sharp-Shinned Hawk 95 seen high in air, migrating southward in a leisurely manner, and so they follow the southern flight of the smaller birds on which they prey. From April until early June, according to the latitude, the Nest. Eggs \vooing of the Hawks begins. Perched in an exposed posidon,and Young ^ , . , .^, „ • , r the male issues his shrillest call notes, moving about Irom place to place until a female responds. The ardent courtship is soon over and then the happy pair fly away in company to select a suitable nesting-site. Nest-building occupies about one week. The nest is usually placed rather high in an evergreen tree, in some sequestered locality. More rarel)-, it is located in a deciduous tree, in a hollow tree, or on some lofty ledge or cliif. Sometimes an old Crows nest or a squirrels nest is utilized as a basis

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