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Identifier: bookofbirdscommo00nati (find matches)
Title: The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: National Geographic Society (U.S.) Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927 Kennard, F. H., (Frederic Hedge), 1865- Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916 Shiras, George, 1859-1942
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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I ^ lar.- .«**»»7 f-TsTi OSIKKV, OK IlSII H.WVK, RISING IRO.M Oiiownri n. ric.v.V STRIKi: d checks i iimself directly over tlie (pjarry on wings thatreckless speed, with winijs folde<l and talons wide When a fish is sighted, tinbeat horizontally, then down he goes at . open. There is a great splash as the hawk strikes the water an<l seizes the lish by the back.In the picture alxtvc the osprey ha<l been deceived by an artiticial gold tish anchored by an18-ounce stone, and it shows him shooting upward after the decoy had slipped from his grasp. 67
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68 MARSH HAWK (Circus hudsonius) Length, alxnit 19 iiulics. The asliy upperparts, wliitc rump, and lonj^ tail nf the a(hihmale sufliciently distinguish this h.iwk; whilethe fuscous upper parts and hulT under partsmuch streaked with hrown distin,t,uish tiic fe-male and youuK. Range: Irceds through much of Canada,south to the middle Iniicd States; winters inthe United States, especially in the South. Tiiough not exclusively a marsh frecpienter,as its name might seem to imi)ly, this hawkprefers open country, and its favorite huntinggrounds are meadow and marsh, in which itnests on the ground. It (lies rather low, thehetter to see and droj) suddenly upon the luck-less meadow mice—its favorite food. Unfor-tunately small hirds form part of its fare, andthere are localities, like Cai)e Cod and Marthas\ineyard, in Massachusetts, where this hawkhas earned a had reputation as a destroyer ofpoultry and game. However, over much thelarger ))art of the vast territory it inhahits themarsh hawk is

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