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The Falcon-like Birds 



FIG. 74. American Sparrow Hawk, Falco sparverius. 



It feeds largely on mice, occasionally on birds, and when opportunity presents on 

 frogs, lizards, moles, and various insects. According to Seebohm, the Kestrel 

 breeds in almost every part of the Palaearctic region, being common up to latitude 

 60 north, but farther north it becomes rapidly rarer, and north of the Arctic 

 Circle it is only occasionally met with, while its presence in North America is 



