Teachers' manual of bird-life/Plate 14

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Buteo lineatus

2482623Teachers' manual of bird-life
Red-shouldered Hawk, Plate XIV,
Ernest Seton Thompson


Page 104.

RED-SHOULDERED HAWK.

Length, 19.00 inches. Adult, upper parts hlackisli brown and rusty; lesser wing-coverts bright chestnut; wings and tail black and white; under parts rich rusty and white. Young, less rusty on back, wings and tail largely rusty; under parts white, spotted or streaked with blackish.