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Sub-family FALCONII^^. 

 Genus Falco, Liuu. 



80. Falco communis^ Gm. Peregrine Falcon; Duck-Hawk. 



Falcn communis, Gm., Lath., Daud., Savi., Wils., Less., Schl., Bp. 



Falco per egi-inus, Ord., Sab., Rich., Bp., James, Woodh., Gir., Gray. 



Falco orientalis, Gm.,Lath., Daud. 



Falco melanogeinjs, Gould, Gray, Bp., Kaup, Strickl. 



Falco anatum, Bp., Gosse, Cass., Brewer, Bd., Cab., Newt., Allen, Coues, Dall 



& Bann. Coop., and most late American writers. 

 Falco nigriceps, Cass., Strickl., Coop. &, Suck., Gray, Coop. 



Length, 18 to 20 inches ; wing, 14 to 15 ; tail, 7 to 8. 



Hab, — yearly cosmopolitan, var. communis from most parts of the 

 Old World, var. melanogenys from Australia and Java, var. anatum gen- 

 erally distributed in America. (Coues.) 



This bird, which Bonaparte separated from the European '•'• communis'''' 

 or ^'■peregrinns,''^ under the name ^^anatum,^^ has now been restored, on 

 the authority of Schlegel and other distinguished ornithologists, to its 

 original position. It is a rare visitor to Bermuda. One was killed in 

 1846 by Dr. Cole, Twentieth Regiment. Another was wounded and 

 taken alive by a colored man on the 1st February, 1850, and presented 

 to Mr. Hurdis, who kept it for several months. A third was also cap- 

 tured, after a revolving gale, at the dockyard. I never saw this grand 

 bird alive while I was quartered in the islands, but I examined a speci- 

 men in Mr. Bartram's collection, and another, in the flesh, shot by Lieu- 

 tenant Tallents, Twentieth Regiment, at Penniston's Pond, on the 10th 

 October, 1874. Mr. Bartram informs me that a pair were shot by a man 

 named Hollis in October, 1875; the male was killed, but the female, 

 being only winged, was kept alive by Mr. Bartram till the end of March, 

 1877. 



81. Falco columharins, Linn. Pigeon Hawk. 



Falco columbarUis, Linn., Forst., Gm., Lath., Daud., Cuv., Wils., Jard., Brewer 

 Bp.,Nutt., Less., Sw. & Rich., Sw., And., Gir., Coop. & Suck., Coop., Ridg., 

 Allen, Coues. 



Falco (Hiipotriorchis) columbarius, of many authors, Cass. 



Tinnunculns columharius, Vieil. 



Xisiis columharius, Cuv. 



Astur columharius, Boie. 



nypotriorclus columbarius, Gray, Bp., Woodh., Cass., Brewer, Heerm., Drees., 

 Coues, Dall »S: liaun., Lawr. 



JEsalon columbarius, Kaup, Gray. 



Falco (J^salon) liihofalco, var. columbarius, Ridg., B. B. & R. 



Falco intermixtus, Daud., Lath. 



Falco temerarius, Aud., Nutt. 



