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birds, etc. and occasionallv makes a raid on the poultry 

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



Dr. F. W. Langdon says: "The stomach of a specimen of this 

 hawk tal<en in Madisonville, in April, 1877, contained the 

 t,'re3ter part of the ^l<eleton and hair of a small wood mouse 

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

 and ten or twelve small beetles, with numerous elytra of the 

 same." (.Toiirn. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. I, p. 116.) 



