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 KITES, BUZZARDS, EAGLES, HAWKS, AND ALLIES
(Family Buteonida)
The Kites, Buzzards, Eagles, Harriers, Hawks, and their allies, comprise the second of the two families (the Buteonidcz) into which the Accipitres are divided, and are disposed in some thirteen so-called subfamilies, the limits of which, however, are not sharp in all cases. The technical characters of the Buteonida have been given on page 212, and we may proceed to a review of the various groups, which are perhaps best ranked as subfamilies. Most of them are large birds, among them the largest of the whole group, and while there is hardly one without certain points of popular interest, lack of space will prevent the full description of more than representative members.
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