Identifier: birdsofnewenglan00sa (find matches)
Title: The birds of New England and adjacent states : ... arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Samuel, Edward Augustus, 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston : Noyes, Holmes, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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d, if the female had not been killedwhen the last eggs were taken, she would probably havelaid another litter, as there were several found in hernearly formed. Both sexes, as with nearly all the otherbirds of prey, incubate Sub-Family Buteonin^e. — The Buzzard-Hawks. General form heavy; flight vigorous and long continued, hut not so rapid as inthe preceding sub-families. Subsist mainly on small quadrupeds and reptiles. BUTEO, Cuvier. Buteo, CtJViEK, Regne Animal, I. 323 (1817). Bill short, wide at base; edges of upper mandible lobed; nostrils large, ovate,wings long, wide, fourth and fifth quills usually longest; tail moderate, rather wide;tarsi moderate, robust, with transverse scales before and behind, laterally with smallcircular and hexagonal scales; toes moderate, or rather short; claws strong. Con-tains about thirty species, inhabiting all countries. 1 The specimen, fig. 3, plate I., is marked with a ring of confluent blotches at th«smaller end, a peculiarity rarely met with.
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THE KED-TAILED HAWK. 35 BUTEO BOBEALIS.—VidUot. The Red-tailed Hawk. Falco borealis, Leverianus, and Jamaicensis, Gm. Syst. Nat., I. 266 (1788). Falco aquilinus, Bartram. Tr.iv., p. 290 (1791). Buteo ferrugineicaudus, Vieillot. Ois. dAm. Sept., I. 32 (1807). Accipiter riificaudus, Vieillot. Ois. dAm. Sept., I. 43 (1J-07). Buteo Jalcuus and Americanus, Vieillot. Nouv. Diet., IV. 472, 477 (1816). Description. Adult.— Tail bright rufous, narrowly tipped with white, and having a subtermi-nal band of black; entire upper parts dark umber-brown, lighter and with fulvousedgings on the head and neck; upper tail coverts yellowish-white, with nitons andbrown spots and bands; throat white, with narrow longitudinal stripes of brown;other under parts pale yellowish-white, with longitudinal lines and spots of reddish-brown, tinged with fulvous; most numerous on the breast, and forming an irregularband across the abdomen; under tail coverts and tibia? generally clear yellowish-white, unspotted, b

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