Identifier: birdlifeguid00chap (find matches)
Title: Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e examined byDr. Fisher had eaten chickens. The Marsh Hawk is migratory, and in winter is notoften found north of southern Connecticut. He nestslater than the resident Hawks, and, unlike them, buildshis nest of grasses on the ground in the marshes, layingfrom four to six dull white or bluish white eggs earlyin May. The Sparrow Hawk has a perfectly clean record, as far as chickens go, not one of the 320 whose stomachs Sparrow Hawk, were examined by Dr. Fisher, having Faico sparverius. partaken of poultry, while no less than Plate xvi. 215 had eaten insects, and 89 had cap- tured mice. Grasshoppers are the Sparrow Hawks chieffood, and we may often see him hovering over the fieldswith rapidly moving wings. Then, dropping lightly downon some unsuspected victim below, he returns to the barelimb or stub he uses for a lookout station, uttering anexultant hilly—hilly—hilly as he flies. The Sparrow is distributed throughout the greaterpart of North America, but in winter is not found north
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Plate XXXVI. Page 132. ORCHARD ORIOLE. Length, 7-30 inches. Adult male, crown, back, and throat black, rest ofbody chestnut. Young male, upper parts olive-green; throat black, restof under parts yellowish. Female, similar, but black on throat replacedby yellowish. HAWKS. 107 of southern New York. It migrates northward in Feb-ruary and March, but does not nest until May. Unlikeour other Hawks, it chooses a hollow tree for a home,often taking possession of a Woodpeckers deserted hole.It lays three to seven eggs, which are finely and evenlymarked with reddish brown. It is the Sharp-shinned and Coopers Hawks who arethe real culprits in Hawkdom. They feed almost exclu- Sharp-shinned Hawk, sivelJ on birds> and> naying once ac~Accipiter veiox. quired a taste for tender young broilers,Plate xvii. ^j are apt t0 make daily visits to thehen yards. They are less often observed than the Hawkspreviously mentioned, seeking less exposed perches andsoaring comparatively little ; but, when seen,

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