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and sides of head, white, fig. 196. The female is heavily 

 banded above with dusky and streaked below with brown. 

 Breeds throughout X. A. east of the Rocky Mountain > in May ; 

 migrates south in Oct. to winter from Mass. southward : north 

 in April. [Note :- a pair of Sparrow Hawks nested in the 

 summer of 1905 in a bird box near the house of one of my 

 neighbors in West Newton, Mass. and in 1903 in a hole in the 

 eaves of the house of another neighbor, where a brood of four 

 young were reared. All through the last winter, 1906-07 the 

 birds have constantly visited the nesting site, and on several 

 occasions I have seen them enter the hole ; once all six came 

 and went in one after the other. My neighbor, Mr. Ohlsen, 

 kindly presented me with one of the young, but it escaped 

 after I had kept it a few days.] 



2. CUBAN SPARROW-HAWK, T. dominicensis. Di^ 

 fers from 1 in being chiefly dark slaty-gray above; beneath 

 deep rusty. Female, rusty above and below; dark markings 

 on sides of head indistinct in both sexes and inner webs of 

 wings are mostly white with dark spots very small. Cuba, 

 casual in Fla. 



3. KESTREL, T. tinnunculus. Differs from 1 in being 

 larger, 14.00, in having the bluish of head extended over 

 portions of the upper parts, and in being conspicuously 

 streaked below. Europe, accidental in Mass. 



Fig. 196. Fig. 197. 



S, B, d, 1. 1-4. 



S, C, a, 1. 1-6. 



