FALCONIDiE— THE HAWKS — FALCO. 



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We give no figure of this species, as it is scarcely to be distinguished iu a 

 cut from anatum ov iJcrcffrinus. 



Falco anatum, Bonaparte. 



THE DUCK-HAWK. 



Falco anatum, Bonapartk, Comp. List, 1838,4. — Cassin, Baird, Birds N. Anicr. 18.58, 



7. — Blakiston, Ibis, 1861, 31.5. —M.uich, Pr. I'hil. Ac. 1863,304. (Jamaica.) 

 " Falco perer/rinus," Wilson, Acduhon, and other autliors. 

 FiGURE.s. Wilson, Am. Orn. IX. pi. 76 ; Aduubon, Birds Amer. pi. 16 : oct. cd. I. pi. 20 ; 

 Lcmljcye B. of Cuba, pi. 1, fig. 2 ; Dii K.\y, Nat. Hist. New York, Birds, pi. 3, fig. 8. 



All nil. Frontal band white. Entire ii])|)er parts bluish cinereous, with transverse 

 bands of brownish-black, lighter on the rump. Under parts yellowish-white, with cordate 

 and circular spots of black on the breast and abdomen, and transverse bands of black on 

 the sides, under tail coverts, and tiljiic ; quills and tail brownish-black, the latter with 



F. peregrinus. European.* 



transverse bars of p.alc cinereous. Cheeks with a patch of black ; bill light lilue ; legs and 

 toes yellow. Sexes alike. 



Younger. Entire upper parts brownish-black, frontal spot obscure, large space on the 



* Not distinguishable in a cut from the American bird. 

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