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* Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipitcr vclox). It is here an uncommon summer 

 and rare winter resident. 



*Cooper's Hawk {Accipitcr coopcri). With us a not uncommon summer 

 and rare winter resident. This hird, the Sharp-shinned Hawk and the rare Duck 

 Hawk and Goshawk, are the only species of our Hawks which habitually live on 

 birds. The others feed largely on insects and small field-mice, and being thus 

 actually beneficial, should be protected by law. 



Goshawk (Astur atricapillus) . A rare winter visitant. 



*Red-tailed Hawk {Biitco borcalis). The Red-tail is one of our commonest 

 Hawks and is resident throughout the year. 



*Red-shouldered Hawk (Biitco lincatiis). A permanent resident. It is 

 probably our most common Hawk and with the Red-tail is the one to which 

 the name "Chicken," or "Hen Hawk," is generally, bvit incorrectly, applied. 



Swaison's Hawk (Bntco szminsoiii). A western species of rare occurrence 

 on the Atlantic coast. There is apparently but one record of its capture near 

 New York City, that of a specimen shot near Cornwall, N. Y., October 14, 1892 

 (Butcher, Auk, X, p. 83). 



*Broad-winged Hawk ( .B;(ft'o platyptcnis) . A rather uncommon summer 

 resident. 



Rough-legged Hawk {Archibutco lagopus sancti-johannis) . A rare winter 

 resident. 



Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysactos) . North America, of rare occurrence 

 east of the ^Mississippi. It has been recorded from Islip, L. I. (Giraud), 

 Canarsie, L. I. (Butcher), Gravescnd, L. I. (Johnson), Long Branch, N. J. 

 (Chapman, Auk, XV, 1898. p. 54), and Highland Falls, N. Y. where Mearns 

 states, it is occasionally observed and was formerly known to nest. 



*Bald Eagle (Halicrfiis Iriicoccphaliis) . This Eagle is here a rather rare 

 bird; it is said by Mearns to nest in the Highlands of the Hudson. On Long 

 IsL'ind it is a not uncommon resident and breeds in several localities (Butcher 

 MS). 



Gyrfalcon ( Faico ntsticohis ^yrfalo). An arctic species, rarely visiting the 

 United States. The only record for this vicinity is that of a specimen killed on 

 Long Island in the winter of 1856 (Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., New York, 

 VIII, 1866, p. 280; see also Brewster, Auk, XII, 1895, p. 180). 



Black Gyrfalcon { FaIco nisticolus obsolctiis). "Labrador, south in the 

 winter to Maine and New York." There is but one record of its occurrence in 

 this vicinity, viz., a specimen shot in the fall of 1875, near Flushing, L. I. (Berier, 

 Bull. N. O. C, VI, 1881, pp. 126, 247). 



Duck Hawk ( Fiiico pcrciiriuiis unafitiu). This Falcon, the "noble Peregrine" 

 of Falconry, is a not uncommon migrant, especially along our coast, and is a rare 

 summer resident along the Palisades and Highlands of the Hudson, where it is 

 known to breed. (See group, second floor). 



