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Count}- records: Blackhawk — "one specimen taken in Black- 

 hawk count}- many years ago by George D. Peck" (M. E. Peck). 

 Buena Vista — "Storm Lake, Iowa, Frank Bond. Specimen in 

 University museum" — No. 3576, male (C. C. Nutting, Proc. Iowa 

 Acad. Sci., 1892, 41). Lee — "a rare vi.sitant" (Currier). Linn — 

 "rare; occasional vi.sitant" (Berry). Mills-Pottawattamie — "rare 

 migrant. Though I have seen this species a number of times in 

 Pottawattamie and Mills counties, the only notation of date I have 

 is July 4, 1892, one killed at Honey Creek Lake while trying to 

 catch young Mallard ducks. I have seen it in Mills county dur- 

 ing the last five years, in the spring time (April), but have no 

 exact notations" (Trostler). Sioux — "shot male at Hawarden, 

 in 1890" (Berry). 



'55- (35^)- ^ ako peregrinus anatum {'^ona.'^.). Duck Hawk. 



The Duck Hawk or Peregrine Falcon inhabits all of North 

 America and the greater part of South x\merica but can nowhere 

 be considered common. It is reported as a rare migrant from 

 .several stations in Iowa, and as a rare sununer resident in a very 

 few favorable localities. 



Wm. Wood, M. D., in an article on " The Oame Falcons of 

 New England" {Am. Nat., v, 1871, 83), says: "I do not find 

 the duck hawk included in Mr. J. i\. x\llen's list of the birds of 

 western Iowa, 3^et Mr. L. E. Ricksecker writes me that he has a 

 fine specimen of the eggs, collected in Iowa, March 2i.st, 1868." 

 H. W. Parker also records it from Clinton county (Ibid., 169). 



Geo. H. Burge (Iowa Orn., ii, 2, 14-19) describes the nesting of 

 the Duck Hawk on cliffs of the Cedar River about fifteen miles 

 below Cedar Rapids. He was told by an old hunter who has 

 lived along the river for about twenty-five years, that there had 

 been a pair of them there ever .since he had been there, u.sually 

 arriving about the middle of March. He took his first .set of four 

 eggs, April 28, 1892, from a hole in the face of bluff about eighty 

 feet from the water and twenty feet from the top of the bluff ; 

 second set May 27, 1892, in same place. In 1893 the eggs were 

 hatched. In 1S94 , four eggs were taken April 20, and a second 

 set on May 2, by B. H. Bailey — three eggs. Dr. Bailey contin- 

 ues the history of this pair (" The Duck Hawk in Iowa," Proc. 

 Iowa Acad. Sci., x,i902, 93-98), which nested every year along 



