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
Other American Species
Space will permit no more than a bare mention of other American species. The Zone-tailed Hawk (B. abbreviates), a bird of South and Central America, and northward to the southern border of the United States, is uniform black or blackish brown, the feathers with pure white bases, and has the black tail crossed by three broad zones of white. Swainson's Hawk (B. swainsoni),
of western North America, is grayish brown above and buffy white below, and there is a distinct black phase in both sexes; the Little Black Hawk, so called, which may be known by the black or dark sooty brown lower parts, is now regarded as the black phase of the Short-tailed Hawk {B. brachyurus),
which has the lower parts white. It is a resident of tropical America in general, but comes north occasionally to Florida, where it breeds.
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