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Harlan's Hawk
Breeding Range--"The Gulf States and Lower Mississippi Valley, north to Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Kansas." (Davie.)
A sub-species of the red-tailed hawk, being somewhat smaller, darker in colour on the back, belly spotted, and the tail mottled with rusty red, black, gray, and whitish.
The nest is placed in a large tree; it is composed of sticks, lined with leaves and moss.
2 eggs mentioned by Davie measure 2.40 x 1.81 and 2.45 x 1.83; "their ground colour is bluish white, blotched with brown; in one somewhat sparingly over the small end, and in the other specimen sprinkled over the entire surface."