FALCONID.K — THE FALCDNS. 



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regular anil continuous. Tliough in tliose respects so closely resenil)]ing the 

 young i ol' T. sjxinrroidcs, it may be distiiiguislied I'mni it by tlie .sliarjj 

 definition oi' tlie black niarkiugs on the side ot the head and on the wing- 

 coverts, and ot tiie Idack liars on tlic inner welis ot tlie primaries. We have 

 eviTy reason to iloubt whether this specimen was actually collected in Cuba, 

 since so many ot the s])ecinicns in tin' Lutresnaye Collection arc incorrectly 

 laljclled as reganls locality. 



A young <? from Georgia, in the .same collection, is somewhat similar, but 

 dillers in the following respects. Tlie rufous beneath is conlined to the 

 breast, sides, and alitlomen, but is as deep (i. e. only a shade or two lighter 

 than that on the back) ; the tw(j outer pairs of tail-feathers are mostly ashy- 

 white, with large spots of black. 



LIST OF SPECI.MENS EXAMINKI). 



Xiitional Mii.'^cuii), 4; Boston Society, 2 ; Miis. Coiii|). Zool., 3; Philaclclpliia Acadeni)', 

 4 ; Nuw Yoik Museum, 2 ; G. N. Lawrciiw, 4. Toliil, ID. 



Habits. The common Sparrow Hawk of America has an exteialeil dis- 

 tribution throughout the greater portion of North America, althougli it was 

 not observed by Mr. 

 jMacFarlane, nor by 

 any other collectors in 

 the higher Arctic re- 

 gie ms, imr was it met 

 with by Mr. Dall in 

 Alaska. Mr. Iv(!nia- 

 (iitt found it nestirig 

 at F(irt li'esdlution (lal. 

 (i2"), (III Creat Slave 

 Lake, and M\: Clark 

 at Fort Jiae. These 

 are the highest points 

 to wiu'di we have any 

 kudwledge of its hav- 

 ing been traced. 



Sir John Hichard- 

 son speaks of it as 



I 1 i ill 1 TiiinunciUiis liiH^rreritis. 



abundant on the banks 



of the Saskatchewan, in the neighborhood of Carlton House. It jirobably 



breeds throughout Xorth America, from Hudson's Hay to Mexico, and from 



