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OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION. 



November 10, 1891. This bird, an immature male in fine plumage, was killed in a 

 wooded ravine near the southern boundary of the County, by a farmer resident in the 

 vicinity. l 



GENUS HALLffiETUS SAVIGNY. 



BALD EAGLE, GREATLY REDUCED. 



60. Haliaeetus leucocephalus (LINN.). 

 Bald Eagle. 



Undoubtedly in former years of more frequent occurrence, but at the present 

 time it is only an occasional visitor. A specimen in the collection of Mr. House- 

 keeper was taken not far from Wooster, about the year 1886. The large Hawks, and 

 sometimes even the Turkey Vulture, are here not seldom mistaken for the present 

 species ; and an investigation of most of the tales of "eagles" seen, has proven them 

 to be similar misidentifications. 



SUBFAMILY FALCONING. FALCONS. 



GENUS FALCO LINN/EUS 



SUBGENUS RHYNCHODON NITZSCH. 



61. Falco peregrinus anatum (BONAP.). 

 Duck Hawk. 



Very rare; a single specimen in the collection of Mr. E. N. Freeman is the only 

 one known to have been taken in the County. This bird, a very fine adult, was secured 

 early in the autumn of 1885, along a creek in the vicinity of Orrville. When first 



1 Auk IX, 1892, p. 200. 



