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pean analogue, the Peregrine Falcon—/ peregrinus. Both Wilson and 
Audubon took this view. Charles Bo- 
naparte was the first who gave it a 
separate name, and Cassin, in his recent 
work on the “ Birds of California and 
Texas,” gives a description of those 
points in which it differs from the lat- 
ter bird. | 
The Great-footed Hawk is one of 
the swiftest birds known, and is one 
that destroys chickens, ducks, and 
__=> every kind of land and water-fowl 
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under the size of a Mallard. Its rapac- 
ity is great, and in boldness it has few 
equals. Specimens are more plentiful now than they were thirty or forty 
years ago. They may often be seen in the neighborhood of Cleveland, 
but are not often shot. Dr. Kirtland shot a fine adult specimen at Poland, 
Mahoning county, several years ago, in the act of flying away with a half- 
grown chicken. Audubon says he has often observed them flying over 
rivers and sheets of water in pursuit of ducks, water-hens, and other water- 
fowl. When a bird was captured, it was borne, if not too heavy, to the 
land, and there devoured, and he cites a case in which one of these birds 
came at the report of a gun and bore off the game—a Teal—at thirty 
yards distant from the sportsman. 
The following description of the adult is from “‘ Cassins Birds of Califor- 
nia,” as | have no specimen from which to give an original description: 
“Frontal band, white; top of the head, back, wing-coverts and rump, blue- 
ish-cinereous; every feather crossed transversely with bands of brownish- 
black; rump and lower part of the back lighter, and with the dark bands 
less numerous. Throat, sides of the neck, and upper part of the breast, 
white, with a tinge of buff, without spots; other under parts same color, 
with a deeper shade, and with cordate or rounded spots of black on the 
lower breast and abdomen, and transverse bars of the same black on the 
sides, under tail coverts and tibiz. Quills, brownish-black, with transverse 
bars of yellowish-white on their inner webs. Tail, brownish-black, with 
