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Range (Western North America eastward)

Western North America, eastward to the Mississippi; breeds from Texas to the arctic regions, and occasionally strays eastward to the Atlantic States. Nest, in trees, thirty to eighty feet from the ground. Eggs, two to three, varying from dull bluish white to creamy white, sometimes unmarked, but generally more or less spotted or blotched with shades of cinnamon-brown, 2.30 x 1.72.

Swainson's Hawk is of rare occurrence east of the Mississippi. Dr. Fisher writes: "By preference it frequents the timber in the vicinity of streams, though often it is found far out on the prairie, where its only perch is the earth mound of some mammal, or some other slightly elevated knoll."

FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 343. Buteo latissimus (Wils.). BROAD-WINGED HAWK. Ad.- Upper parts dark grayish brown or fuscous, more or less margined with buffy and rufous; three outer primaries "notched" and without ochraceous-buff markings; tail fuscous, with two bars and the tip grayish white; under parts heavily barred with brownish ochraceous- FIG. 70.-Three-notched primaries of Broad-winged buff.