ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
THE FALCONS, GOSHAWKS, CARACARAS, AND ALLIES
The Aplomado Falcon
(F. fusco-carulescens), or Orange-chested Hobby, as it is sometimes called, is a handsome Falcon of Central and South x\merica, which reaches the border of the United States in southern Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. It is from fifteen to eighteen inches long, bluish gray above, with a broad stripe behind the eye, ear-coverts, chin, throat, and chest immaculate white, while there is orange-rufous on the occiput, and the lower parts are slaty blackish, narrowly barred with white, except the thighs and lower tail-coverts, which are light rufous or rusty.
The wings and tail are blackish with transverse white bars, while the bill is yellow with a black tip, and the feet orange. In Argentina, where it is tolerably common, Mr. Hudson speaks of it as a poor spirited bird which”never boldly and openly attacks any bird, except the smallest species, and prefers to perch on an elevation from which it can dart down suddenly and take its prey by surprise.”
Its food consists of mice, small reptiles, grasshoppers, and insects of various kinds, and occasionally a small bird. It frequents in the United States the open plains, covered here and there with low mesquite trees, oaks, and cactuses. Its nest is usually the abandoned home of the White-necked Raven, and the eggs are apparently three in number.
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