. Birds of Washington and vicinity, including adjacent parts of Maryland and Virginia . ot and a half and the lattertwo feet long. Sharp-shinned Hawk: Accipiter velox. Length 11 inches. Upper parts slaty-gray, with a few white spots; tail lighter,with dark band and tipped with whitish. Under parts white, barred with light brown, the throatwith dark streaks. The young are dark brown and rustyabove, 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
. Birds of Washington and vicinity, including adjacent parts of Maryland and Virginia . ot and a half and the lattertwo feet long. Sharp-shinned Hawk: Accipiter velox. Length 11 inches. Upper parts slaty-gray, with a few white spots; tail lighter,with dark band and tipped with whitish. Under parts white, barred with light brown, the throatwith dark streaks. The young are dark brown and rustyabove, 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 Sharp-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. COOPE/^!S 139. COOPERS HAWK vAccipiter cooperii) 140 COOPERS HA il7v. Coopers Hawk: Accipiter cooperii. This little Hawk is like the Sharp-shinned, but larger,being 16 inches (common) all the year. Chicken Hawk is a common and fitting name forCoopers. He takes larger poultry than the Sharp-shinned and is especially fond of tame pigeons, as wellas all kinds of wild birds. Meadowlarks, Robins andFlickers are mentioned as frequent victims. He alsoeats English Sparrows. The nest is usually in the top of a tree, either ever-green or deciduous, and looks like a Crows nest. Theeggs, 4 to 5, are bluish-white, sometimes lightlyspotted with brown. RED- TA /LED HA J J 7v 141
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