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The Sharp-shinned Hawk is not uncommon during the winter. 
It was occasionally seen near Nassau, which was the only place 
where we observed it. Dr. Bryant considered it the most common 
species. 
Fig) Aud) Wdsy No A Vel. I) pl. 25. 
FALCO COMMUNIS. (Gm.) 
PEREGRINE FALCON. 
Above, “blackish, feathers becoming gray on the 
Adult Male. 
back, and gray mottled with dark slate on the rump; a black cheek- 
patch; throat and breast, dull white; lower part of the breast nar- 
rowly streaked with brown; belly, flanks, sides of the body, and 
under wing-coverts, whitish, showing a tinge of tawny, banded and 
streaked with brown; tail, alternately banded with dark and light 
slate-color, the feathers tipped with yellowish white; tarsus and feet, 
yellowish green; claws, black. Female, larger. 
Length 17.25, wing 12.50, tail 6.50, tarsus 1.80, bill .80. 
This Falcon is by no means common. A single specimen was 
killed at Norman’s Key on January 7. Dr. Bryant found a dead 
bird of this species at Norman’s Key, which proved to be an adult 
male, in fine spring plumage. 
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