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reasons of the year, as well as those known a» uiigrantfi 

 and "strafrglers:" 



THE BUZZARDS, EAGLES AND HAWKS. 



Turkey Buzzard (Cathartes aura). 



Bald Eagrle (Haliceetuti leucocephaltis.) 



Red-tailed Hawk {Buteo borealis). 



Broad-wing-ed Hawk {Buteo laiiHsimus). 



Marsh Hawk {Girous hudsonius). 



Sparrow Hawk (Falco sparverius). 



Goshawk {Acciptter atricapillus). 



Oooper'H Hawk (Accipiter cooperi). 



Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter velox). 



Duck Hawk (Falco peregrinus anatum). 



Osprey (Pandion halicetus carolinensis). 



Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus). 



Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos). 



Pig-eon Hawk (Falco columbarius). 



American Roug-h-legg^ed Hawk (Archibuteo lagopv^ 

 sancti-johannis) . 



Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippteneis). 



Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoidea for/icattis). 



Black Vulture (Oatharista atrata). 



The twelve first mentioned of the eighteen birds 

 named in the atyove column breed regularly in the 

 Slate. Of these, some, for example, the Turkey Buz 

 zard, Goshawk and Bald Eagle, are restricted to a 

 few localities or to certain sections of the Common 

 wealth, yet, nevertheless, they annually rear their 

 families within our borders. 



The rest of this group, with, possibly, the exception 



of the daring and little dove-eating Pigeon Hawk 



(JFalco columbariu8\ which, it is asserted, breeds occa 



sionally in certain of our remote and higher monn 



tainous districts, occur in Pennsylvjini;i only, as mi 



