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Grafton Parker and myself have been hunting together at Liver- 

 pool, Indiana, we have, on a number of occasions, seen Bald 

 Eagles, both in the spring and in the fall. On the Kankakee 

 marshes near Kouts, Indiana, there were two nests of this species, 

 both of which were occupied during the spring of 1896. One 

 of the nests was in a dead oak tree and not over fifty feet above 

 the ground and within twenty feet of a haystack. The female 

 would allow us to approach within seventy-five yards of the 

 nest before she would leave it. 



The range of this species includes the whole of North Amer- 

 ica, north of Mexico ; northwest through the Aleutian Islands to 

 Bering Island, Kamchatka. It breeds locally throughout its 

 range. 



Genus FALCO Linnaeus, 1758. 



Falco peregrinus anatum (Bonaparte). Duck Hawk. 



Falco peregrinus AA T ILSON, Amer. Orn., IX, 1814, 120, pi. 76. 



Falco anatum BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 4. 



Falco peregrinus B. anatum BLASIUS, List. B. Eur., 1862, 3. 



Falco communis var. anatum RIDGWAY, in B. B. & R., Hist. N. Amer. 

 B., Ill, 1874, 128, 132. 



Popular synonyms: AMEBICAN PEEEGEINE. BULLET HAWK. GREAT- 

 FOOTED FALCON. 



The Duck Hawk is a very rare visitant within our limits. 

 Mr. George Clingman has a male specimen which was shot at 

 Bryn Mawr on September 29, 1899. There are two specimens 

 of this noble Hawk in the museum of the Northwestern Uni- 

 versity in Evanston, which were captured in the spring of 1881 

 by Mr. W. H. Ballou near the University. In the collection of 

 Mr. Ruthven Deane there is a large adult specimen of this 

 species which was taken in October, 1895, on Calumet Lake, 

 while it was attempting to seize a duck which had just been 

 shot by a local hunter and was lying among the decoys. Mr. 

 E. W. Nelson says the Duck Hawk was "not uncommon during 

 the migrations," at the time he wrote in 1876. He also says 

 that it was "formerly a rare summer resident.'* 



The range of the Duck Hawk includes the whole of North 

 America and the larger portion of South America. It breeds 

 locally throughout most of its United States range. 



Falco colmnbarius Linnaeus. Pigeon Hawk. 



Falco columbarius LINNAEUS, S. N., ed. 10, I, 1758, 90. 



