204 FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 
     
    
   
   
    
     343. Buteo latissimus (UV/s2). Bum.\n—\\'IN;ED HAWK. .441.— 
     
     I‘pper parts dark grayish lu'own or t'useous, more or less margined with hutly 
     
     and rut'ous: t/u'ce outer primaries “ notched” and It'd/20H! oehraceous—lmtl' 
     
     markings; tail t'us— 
     
     cons, with two liars 
     
     and the tip grayish 
     
     white; under parts 
     
     heavily barred with 
     
     brownish oeliraeeons- 
     
     Flu. 70.7»Three-notched primaries of Broad-winged liutl". 1m. " Upper 
     
    

    
     Hawk. tRedueed.) parts like the pre— 
     
    

    
     ceding; tail grayish 
     
    

    
     brown, with three to five indistinct black bars and a narrow whitish tip; 
     
     under parts white or lmtl'y white, streaked and spotted with fuseous. 6 11., 
     
     1569; “@1068: T.. 6'75; B. from N.. '70. 9 Li. 16'76; W.,11'41; T., 7‘09. 
     
    

    
     [fa/)7(HittiCOlllpzll‘cd with the other memhers of this genus, the three 
     
     “notched” primaries and small size are the principal characters of this 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Hawk. 
     
    

    
     Range—Breeds throughout eastern North America, from New Brunswick 
     
     southward. 
     
    

    
     Washington. not common W. V., rare S. R. Sing Sing. tolerably common 
     
     S. R., Meir. 15 to Oct. 23. Cambridge, T. V., sometimes common in Sept; 
     
     rare in spring. 
     
    

    
     Avert, in trees. twenty~five to titty feet from the ground. Eggs, two to four, 
     
     dull white or bully white spotted, blotehed, or washed with oehraceous—butf 
     
     or cinnainon-hrown, 210 x 1‘60. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ Of all our Hawks. this species seems to be the most unsuspieious. 
     
     often allowing a person to approach within a few yards of it, and 
     
     when startled flies but a short distance before it alights again. Dur- 
     
     ing,r the early summer the Broad-winged Hawk often may be seen sit- 
     
     ting for hours on the dead top of some high tree. At other times it. 
     
     is found on the smaller trees in the deep woods, along streams. or on 
     
     the ground, where its food is more often procured. Although slug- 
     
     gish and unusually heavy in its flight. it is capable of rapid motion, 
     
     and sometimes soars high in the, air. One of its notes resembles quite 
     
     closely that of the Wood Pewee. . . . 
     
    

    
     “ 0t 6;") stomachs examined, 2 contained small birds: 15. mice; 13, 
     
     other mammals: ll. reptiles: 13. batt'aehians; 30. insects; 2, Garth- 
     
     worms: 4. e 'awfish; and 7 were empty ” (Fisher). 
     
    

    
     344. Buteo brachyurus [Va/N. Snoiz'r , “rum HAWK. AIL—— 
     
     L'ppt-r parts slaty gray or t‘nseous grayish lirown: tort-head whitlsll; tail 
     
     barred with black and narrowly tipped with white. its under surface grayish; 
     
     sides of the breast “‘ltl] stung ruthus—lirown markings; rest of the under parts 
     
     [Ir/I'd zrln'z'e. lm.v:~'imilar. but upper parts browner and margined with 
     
     cream—butt: under parts washed with cream—huff: no rut'ousdirown on the 
     
     breast. Darkphase—Fuscous-black, with a slight metallic luster; forehead