166 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



In 1892 I saw young birds that had been taken from a nest in 

 Timber and Beaver Swamp, Cape May county, and Mr. W. B. Crispin 

 has found several nests in Salem county. One contained eggs March 

 5th, 1905, and another February 27th. 1 



Back of West Creek and Tuckerton, at a location known as "Eagles- 

 wood," these birds have long been of frequent occurrence, and un- 

 doubtedly nest, but the wanton killing of them is rapidly causing their 

 extermination. 



Now and then an Eagle may be seen flying high overhead in various 

 parts of the State, and specimens have been shot at Princeton, Had- 

 donfield, etc. 



Family FALCONID^. 

 THE FALCONS. 



356 Falco peregrinus anatum (Bonaparte). 

 Duck Hawk. 



Adults. Length, male, 16-18 ; female, 18-20. Wing, male, 11.50-13 ; female, 

 13-14.50. Dark plumbeous above, with buff bars on the primaries, and obscure 

 black bars on the tail ; tip of tail, white ; below, buff, streaked or spotted with 

 black on the sides. 



Young in first year. Upper parts, brown, edged with rusty or buff ; below, 

 deep buff, streaked with brown. 



Nest merely a ledge of rock; eggs, three to four, cream or reddish-buff, 

 thickly marked with brown of several shades, 2.05 x 1.55. 



The Duck Hawk is a tolerably common transient visitant, and occa- 

 sionally remains through the winter in the southern counties. It 

 breeds on the Palisades of the Hudson, 2 in the northern part of the 

 State, and on the Nockamixon Cliffs on the Pennsylvania side of the 

 Delaware. 



While Duck Hawks feed mainly upon other birds, they confine their 

 attention for the most part to water birds, and seldom visit the poultry 

 yard. The statement made by George Ord, and copied by others, to 

 the effect that this bird nested in the cedar swamps of South Jersey, 

 was evidently hearsay and quite erroneous, as he adds that 'he and 

 Wilson were unable to find a nest. 



1 Cf. also, E. J. Darlington, Oologist, 1906, p. 106. 



2 Cf. Wm. P. Lemmon, Osprey, IV., p. 42. 



