Painted

Unknown

Published

1930

Volume

5

Plate

341

Sennett Whitetail Hawk

Buteo albicaudatus sennetti

This large double of our Marsh Hawk wanders over our southern border from its Mexican home. Little is known of its habits for the uninhabitated areas which it frequents are not enticing even to the enthusiastic ornithologist.

BREEDING

NEST: a large bulky structure of sticks and grass, located in scrub within ten feet of ground.

EGGS: 2 or 3; dull white lightly spotted with pale brown.

RANGE

From central Texas, southward.

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