ferruginous

• “Much more recently the idea of ferruginous particles has been revived, their presence being ascribed not to volcanoes, but to the meteorites constantly being dissipated in the upper atmosphere.”

  A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences

• “The series in America corresponding to this, entitled the ferruginous sand formation, presents fossils generally identical with those of”

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

• “The kind of ferruginous pavement of the boulder-clay known to the agriculturist as _pan_, which may be found extending in some cases its iron cover over whole districts, -- sealing them down to barrenness, as the iron and brass sealed down the stump of Nebuchadnezzar's tree, -- is, like the white strips and blotches of the deposit, worthy the careful notice of the geologist.”

  The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland

• “When a company called Ausra filed plans for a big solar power plant in California, it was deluged with demands from a union group that it study the effect on creatures like the short-nosed kangaroo rat and the ferruginous hawk.”

  POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: June 19, 2009

• “Stuffed birds in flight - roseate spoonbills, a great blue heron, a ferruginous hawk - fill another case.”

  Saltillo, Mexico - color, culture and colonial charm

• “Their animal of concern was the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl.”

  Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

• “The plain has coarse, well-drained, generally ferruginous and relatively infertile soils.”

  Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic

• “The area supports a number of species locally threatened or at their biogeographic limits, including golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, prairie falcon Falco mexicanus, ferruginous hawk Buteo regalis, loggerhead shrike Lanius ludovicianus, merlin Falco columbarius, Brewers sparrow Spizella breweri and grasshopper sparrow Ammodramus savannarum.”

  Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada

• “The numerous raptors here include Swainson's hawk, ferruginous hawk, rough-legged hawk, red-tailed hawk, marsh hawk, prairie falcon, great horned owl, and burrowing owl.”

  Intermountain Semidesert Province (Bailey)

• “Raptors include the golden eagle, great horned owl, red-tailed hawk, ferruginous hawk, and the rare zone-tailed hawk.”

  Chihuahuan Semidesert Province (Bailey)

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