Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley (1908) (14745360451)

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Title: Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, 1863-1948
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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From Biological Survey, U. S. Ucpt. olAgriculture.
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AUDUBON CARACARA FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 171 pure white with few markings to deep cinnamon buff, more or less sprin-kled or blotched with darker brown. Food. — Mainly grasshoppers and crickets; also other insects, snails,small injurious mammals, and sometimes birds. The habits of the eastern sparrow hawk are the same as those ofthe western. 360a. F. s. deserticola Meams. Desert Spabkow Hawk. Similar to F. sparverius but larger, with relatively longer tail and paler,more rufous coloration. Distribution. — Western United States and British Columbia; south toGuatemala. Food. — Small mammals such as mice and gophers, with grasshoppersand other insects. The marsh hawk and the sparrow hawk are the two most familiarmembers of the hawk family. Instead of spending their time soaringliigh in the sky or darting back and forth through the treetops,Circus beats slowly low over our meadows for mice, while the spar-row hawk builds his nest in a knot-hole of a tree by the roadsideand sits