Ferruginous Rough-leg at Los Angeles
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On investigating the reason for several gunshots heard within one hundred and fifty yards of the La Brea fossil pits, on December 8, last, I secured a beautiful specimen of the Ferruginous Rough-leg (Archibuteo ferrugineus) that had just been killed by a rancher whose poultry it was threatening. It proved to be a female of the year and in perfect plumage. Its craw was entirely empty, which probably explains the boldness of the bird in invading a locality bristling with oil derricks and with the noise of pumping engines all about. The rancher told me later that there was a pair of the hawks, but the other vanished when this one was killed.
Museum of History, Science, and Art, Los Angeles, California.
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Wyman, L. E.
(1914)
"Ferruginous Rough-leg at Los Angeles,"
Condor: Vol. 16
:
Iss.
3
, Article 17.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/condor/vol16/iss3/17