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NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



"From eastern border of Great Plains to the Pacific" (Bendire); " East to the 

 eastern border of Great Plains" (Goss); "Eastern border of Great Plains to the 

 Pacific" (Fisher); Omaha (L. Skow); Cherry county (J. M. Bates); "occasion- 

 ally seen during spring and fall, one killed near Bellevue, May 12, 1694" (I. 

 S. Trostler); Sarpy county (A. K. Fisher); Sioux county, Feb. 25, 1896, a pair 

 (W. D. Hunter, L. Skow). 



Fig. 20. — Prairie Falcon. 



356. Falco peregrinus anatum (^ona^j.).— Duck Hawk ; Per- 



egrine Falcon. 



West Point (L. Bruner) ; "Have seen this hawk but three times in the state " 

 (Aughey); " Not uncommon in thespringand fall " (Taylor); " Wholeof Amer- 

 ica" (Bendire); do. (Goss); "Inhabits all of North America" (Fisher); Omaha 

 (L. Skow). 



357. Falco columbarius Linn. — Pigeon Hawk. 



Pine Ridge in Dawes and Sioux counties. West Point (L. Broner); " Unfort- 

 unately too abundant in Nebraska" (Aughey); "Abundant during spring and 

 fall" (Taylor); "The whole of North America" (Bendire); do. (Goss); "In- 

 habits the whole of North America" (Fisher); Omaha (L. Skow); Cherry 

 county (J. M. Bates). 



358. Falco richardsonii Ridgw. — Kichardson's Merlin. 



West Point, Omaha (L. Bruner); " Rather common in Nebraska, breeds here" 

 (Aughey); "Resident, common" (Taylor); "From the Mississippi river to 



