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Title: The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dawson, William Leon, 1873- Jones, Lynds, b. 1865
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Columbus, The Wheaton Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rmers face and eyes. There is seldom anyone to call him to account,and during the migrations at least, the Blue Hawk has less conscience thana pirate. In former days, when the Ruffed Grouse was more abundant, histireless pursuit of this valuable game bird earned him the name of PartridgeHawk, while in his native wilds in the far north he still feasts upon Grouse andPtarmigan, and is ready for anything up to the size of a Goose. On the 13th of March, 1901, I saw a gunner on the O. S. U. groundsdrop one of these birds from the top of an elm tree into the waters of theOlentangy, where it was left to shift for itself. Not suspecting the valueof the kill I made a long detour and crossed the river in order to put theHawk out of its misery. Altho severely wounded, the bird, once rescuedfrom the drift, made a spirited fight, and was not despatched until its beau-tiful plumage was quite ruined. A year later, within a day, another Goshawkwas narrowly observed with binoculars in the same bottom.
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40 BED-TAILED HAWlC JSuteo borealis Yi Life-size eoPVHIQHT IBOO, BY A.1 REBEHVEO IN OHIO BY T WHEATOK PUBLISHINS CD. THE RED-TAILED HAWK. 403 No. 180. RED-TAILED HAWK. A. O. U. No. 337. Buteo borealis (Gmel). Synonyms.—Hen Hawk; Chicken Hawk; Red-tail; Red-tailedBuzzard. Description.— Adult: Above dark brown, fuscous, and grayish brown,varied by rusty or ochraceous edgings, and outcropping whitish, especially abouthead and neck; primaries blackish-tipped, the first four deeply emarginate, theinner ones indistinctly banded; tail deep rufous, crossed near end by a singlenarrow bar of blackish; lighter from below,—vinaceous or pearly pink; underparts white or buffy white, rufous—and brown-shaded on sides of neck and breast,nearly meeting in center; throat and upper breast with dusky, lanceolate streaks;sides with rhomboidal spots or transverse bars of rufous and dusky in variouspatterns, nearly meeting across belly; shanks faintly barred with rusty; billplumbeous; tarsus yellow,

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