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liirds, etc. and ocoaslnnallv makes a raid on the poultry 

 yard." (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. IX, 1886. p. 622.) 



Dr. F. W. Lanedon says; "The stomach of a specimen of this 

 hawk taken In Madisonville, in April, 1877, contained the 

 ),'realer part of the skeleton and hair nf a small wood mouse 

 (Arvlcola austerus), a lizard (Eumeces) about six inches long, 

 and ten or Iwolve sniall beetles, with numerous elytra of the 

 same." (.lourn. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Ili.«t.. Vol. I, p. llfi.) 



