. Birds of Washington and vicinity : including adjacent parts of Maryland and Virginia . foot and a half and thelatter two feet long. Sharp-shinned Hawk: Accipitcr irlox. Length i ( inches. Upper parts slaty-gray, with a few white spots; tail Hghter,with dark band and tipped with whitish. Under parts white, barred with light brown, the throatwith dark streaks. The young are dark brown and rnstyabove, and streaked instead of barred beneath. Resident (common) all the year. The food of the Sharp-shinned consists almost en-tirely of young poultry and small birds, and Dr. A. of the Biologi
. Birds of Washington and vicinity : including adjacent parts of Maryland and Virginia . foot and a half and thelatter two feet long. Sharp-shinned Hawk: Accipitcr irlox. Length i ( inches. Upper parts slaty-gray, with a few white spots; tail Hghter,with dark band and tipped with whitish. Under parts white, barred with light brown, the throatwith dark streaks. The young are dark brown and rnstyabove, and streaked instead of barred beneath. Resident (common) all the year. The food of the Sharp-shinned consists almost en-tirely of young poultry and small birds, and Dr. A. of the Biological Survey, the authority onHawks and Owls, says there is little in its favor ex-cept its fondness for the English Sparrow, and thatit is gradually learning that there is a never-failingsupply of food for it in the larger towns and has seen it chasing Sparrows in the Washingtonparks. The Shaip-shinned nests later than other Hawksand usually builds in a thick evergreen tree abouttwenty feet from the ground. The eggs, 4 to 5, areheavily spotted and blotched. COOPERS HAWK 139. COOPERS HAWK (Accipiteh cooperii). 140 CO OPER S HA JI A Coopers Hawk: Accipitcr coo peril. This little Hawk is like the Sharp-shinned, bnt larger,being 16 inches long. Resident (common) all the year. Chicken Hawk is a common and fitting namefor Coopers. He takes larger poultry than theSharp-shinned and is especially fond of tame pigeons,as well as all kinds of wild birds. Meadowlarks,Robins and Flickers are mentioned as frequentvictims. He also eats English Sparrows. The nest is ttsually in the top of a tree, either ever-green or deciduous, and looks like a Crows eggs, 4 to 5, are bluish-white, sometimes lightlyspotted With brown. HAWK 141
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