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Title: Birds that hunt and are hunted: life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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arts being done in a somersault,and accompanied by screeching notes which form the only lovesong within the range of his limited powers. All hawks havea screaming, harsh cry, not distinctly different in the differentspecies to serve as a clew to identity except to those well up infield practice; but the white lower back of the harrier, its longtail, and its terrestrial habits serve to identify it in any phase ofplumage. Owing to its long wings, it appears much larger inthe air than on the ground. Four to six dull or bluish white eggs,unmarked, are laid in May, in a nest built of twigs, hay, andweeds, on the ground; yet the clumsy affair was the joint effortof the mates, that also take turns in sitting and in feeding theyoung. Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter velox) Called also: PIGEON HAWK; LITTLE BLUE DARTER Length—Male lo to 12 inches; female 12 to 14 inches.Male and Female—Upper parts slaty gray. Tail, which is about 3inches longer than tips of wings and nearly square, is ashy 312
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MARSH HAWK. Kites, Hawks, Eagles, etc. gray, barred with blackish, and with a whitish tip; throatwhite, streaked with blackish. Other under parts whitish,barred on sides and breast with rusty, buff, and brown,lining of wings white, spotted with dusky; head small;tarsus slender and feathered half way; feet slender. Imma-ture birds have dusky upper parts, margined with rufous;tail resembling adults. Under parts buffer whitish, streakedor spotted with rusty or blackish. Range—North America in general; nesting throughout the UnitedStates and wintering from Massachusetts to Guatemala. Season—Permanent resident, except at northern parts of range. A smaller edition of Coopers hawk (to be distinguishedfrom it chiefly by its square, instead of rounded, tail), like it,dashes through the air with a speed and audacity that spreadconsternation among the little song and game birds and poultry,once it appears, like a flash of feathered lightning, in theirmidst. Cries of terror from many sympathi

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