Birds and Nature Vol. 9 No. 2 [February 1901]

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Various. Birds and Nature Vol. 9 No. 2 [February 1901]

FEBRUARY

FROST-WORK

THE HAWKS

INTERESTING STONE HOUSES

THE ALASKAN SPARROW

THE DOWITCHER (Macrorhamphus griseus.)

SOME THINGS WE MIGHT LEARN FROM THE LOWER ANIMALS

THE GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE (Quiscalus macrourus.)

THE EAGLE

THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF BIRDS

THE HOODED WARBLER (Sylvania mitrata.)

MRS. JANE’S EXPERIMENT

A STROLL IN THE FROST KING’S REALM

SNAILS OF THE FOREST AND FIELD

THE GILA MONSTER (Heloderma suspectum.)

BIRD NOTES

THE POMEGRANATE (Punica granatum.)

FISHES AND FISH-CULTURE AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS

CINNAMON (Cinnamomum cassia blume.)

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Among the birds that are most useful to man may be classed the Hawks. They, with the vultures, the eagles and the owls, belong to the bird order Raptores, or birds of prey. Unlike the vultures the Hawks feed upon living prey while the former seek the dead or dying animal. The vultures are often called “Nature’s Scavengers,” and in many localities they have been so carefully protected that they will frequent the streets of towns, seeking food in the gutters.

The family Falconidae, which includes the Hawks, the falcons, the vultures, the kites, and the eagles – all diurnal birds of prey – numbers about three hundred and fifty species, of which between forty and fifty are found in North America. The remainder are distributed throughout the world.

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The Hawks of our illustration are natives of North America ranging from Mexico northward. The American Rough-legged Hawk (Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis) is a geographical variety of a rough-legged form that is found in northern Europe and Asia. It is also known by the names of Black Rough-legged and Black Hawk.

This Hawk is one of the largest and most attractive of all the species of North America. Dr. Fisher tells us that “it is mild and gentle in disposition, and even when adult may be tamed in the course of a few days so that it will take food from the hand and allow its head and back to be stroked. When caged with other species of hawks, it does not as a rule fight for the food, but waits until the others have finished, before it begins to eat.”

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