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and at Taughannock Falls near the shore of Cayuga lake, June 25, 1909. 

 This nest, discovered by Miss Gertrude Yeames and identified by the 

 author, Mr Fuertes tells me, was occupied again in 19 10, and undoubtedly 

 has been used for many years. It has been photographed and described by 

 Allen, Knight and Bailey. See Bird Lore, Jan. 1913. This hawk possibly 

 breeds in the Montezuma swamps in the cavities of basswoods or syca- 

 mores as it does in the Mississippi valley, for the birds are occasionally 

 seen there in the nesting season. Nests of the Duck hawk with eggs have 

 been reported from the Palisades, March 30 (Chapman) ; from the Helder- 

 berg mountains 30 miles from Albany, April II, 1884 (Lintner, Auk, 1 : 391) ; 

 from Morehouse, Hamilton county, May 16, 1896 (Bagg, Auk, 14:226) 

 and from Pond mountain, Vermont, 4 miles from Granville, N. Y., by 

 F. T. Pember. As a transient this falcon is recorded regularly along the 

 Long Island coast, September 17 to October 25 (Dutcher), along the Great 

 Lakes, April and October; and the Montezuma marshes, March 10 to 

 April 20, and August 20 to October 30 (Foster Parker). Mr Batty reported 

 it as a " common fall and winter resident " along the shores of Long Island 

 (Forest & Stream, 4:374). From the interior of the State this hawk 

 has also been mentioned from Seneca lake and Grand island by Ottomar 

 Reinecke; from Lowville by James H. Miller; from Harmony, Chautauqua 

 county, by A. E. Kibbe; from Ithaca, 1899, by Fuertes; from Yates county 

 by James Flahive; from Orleans county by Bruce and Langille; from West 

 River, Canandaigua lake, June 3, 1906, by Maurice Blake; and from Canan- 

 daigua, March 15, 1903, a fine male captured by Addison P. Wilbur. But 

 these reports do not represent its actual occurrence, as it is so rarely taken 

 or recognized; it surely occurs regularly, though sparingly, in all parts of 

 the State, but is most often found along the coast, lakes and marshes, where 

 waterfowl and shore birds are common. 



Habits. The Duck hawk differs from the Peregrine falcon of the 

 Eastern Hemisphere only in having the throat and upper chest unmarked ; 

 its power, swiftness and intrepidity are the same. The Noble falcon, 



as it is often called, attacks any kind of game from the size of a wild duck 



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