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over. The eggs usually hatch about the last of June, and the young are 
abundantly supplied with food by both parents, who exhibit every sign of 
extreme watchfulness and care of their offspring. A remarkable trait re- 
corded of this hawk is, that it will permit the Purple Crackle or Crow- 
Blackbird— Quiscalus versicolor—to build its nest in the interstices of that 
of the hawk. They live together in the greatest harmony, and carry on 
the business of life without interference. 
The length of the adult female hawk is about 25 inches; wing 214 
inches; tail 104 inches. Color—head and under-parts white; crown 
and hind head white; front, brownish, with a wide stripe of dark-brown 
through the eye, and extending down the neck behind; wings and tail 
deep brown, shaded with a lighter hue; tail, with eight bands of dark- 
brown, with a large portion of the inner webs white; breast spotted with 
dark-brown, in heart-shaped and circular markings; bill and claws bluish- 
black; feet yellow, with a green tinge; cere lightish blue. 
They migrate south at the coming of winter. 
A dilapidated specimen is in the possession of the Cleveland Academy 
of Natural Sciences. A perfect one in the collection of the Hon. Wm. 
Case of Cleveland. 
This includes all hawks, eagles and vultures known to inhabit Ohio. 
Other species may appear occasionally, in consequence of the occurence 
of a very warm, or very cold season. In the former the more southern 
species may visit us, in the latter those from the north. The Gyr falcon 
—fierofalco sacer—is said to have been captured at Louisville, Ky., and 
as this is a very beautiful and powerful species, strictly northern in its 
habitat, building on the rocks of Greenland, Labrador, and in the vicin- 
ity of Hudson’s Bay, and not common even in Maine; its appearance in 
Ohio would be apt to be observed. It cannot, therefore, be claimed as 
belonging to our fauna. 
It is doubtful if the extermination of our hawks would result in any 
great benefit to farmers, as nearly all the larger species feed indiscrimi- 
nately on both useful and injurious animals, And as the latter are gener- 
ally more numerous in the haunts of the hawks than the former, their 
destruction is a positive benefit. Those species, that, like the red-tailed 
hawk, destroy chickens, also kill squirrels and the other small quadrupeds 
that infest the grain-fields and barns. In this manner the undue increase 
