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Buzzard. Properly large raptorial birds of the genus Buteo, including both American and European species. In America Buteo borealis, the red tailed hawk, is the largest, reaching a length of twenty to twenty-three inches, and measuring nearly four feet from tip to tip of wing. The red shouldered hawk, Buteo linearis, is nearly as large and has similar habits. Both are called "hen hawks". Buteo latissimus is another species found in the Adirondack mountains. The food of hawks consists chiefly of frogs, toads, mice, and other small mammals and insects. Hawks also invade the poultry yard, and for that reason are considered harmful; but on the whole they are more beneficial than harmful.

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