FALCOXID.E — THE FALCONS. 



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into the soiithoni T'nited States; Mississippi (Audubon); Texas (Mus. S. I. ; Uuesseu) ; 

 Aiizoim (CoiKf"). 



Localities: Giiaieiiiala (Sci,. Ibis, I, 210). 



LIST OK SI'KCIMKNS EXAMINED. 



National Museum, 13 ; I'ldladelphia Aeatieniy, 3 ; Cab. G. N. Lawrence, 2 ; Coll. K. 

 Ridgway, 1. Total, li). 



Habits. Thi.s Hawk lias a very limited ran<.ie within tlie T'liitud States, 

 and Mr. Auduhon, wIkj wa.s the first tu meet witli it tliere, oLtaiued oidy a 

 single specimen I'rom Louisiana. 

 .Su])|)osing it to be an uudeserihed 

 specie.s, he named it in honor of 

 his iVienil, Mr. Edward Harris. 



Tiii.s species is occasionally 

 found in the lower portions of 

 the States of Mississipjii and 

 Louisiana, Init becomes nnich 

 more abundant in the southwest- 

 ern sections of tlie latter State, 

 and in Texas is common, espe- 

 cially about the moutli of the 

 IJio flrandc. In one vai'iety or 

 the other it is fre(iuently met 

 with throughout Mexico, and 

 Central America, and is also said 

 to be an occasional visiiiut of 

 Cuba and Jamaica. 



Mr. Dresser found this Hawk 

 common throughout Texas to tlie Colorado Tiiver, beyond whicii lie noticed 

 but few. Tt was tlie only Hawk he noticed at 'Matamoras in the summer. 

 He describes it as a heavy, sluggish bird, seldom seen on the wing, and sub- 

 sisting, so far as he could sec, entirely on carrion. All along the load from 

 liroM-nsville to San Antonio, he noticed it either perched on some tree by 

 the roadside, or busy, in coni]iany with Vultures and Caracaras, regaling on 

 some offensive carrion. He found it breeding in the neighborhood of San 

 Antonio, ^ledina, and Alta.scosa Itivers, having eggs in the montli of May. 

 A nest found on the 4t]i of ^lay, near the Medina Kiver, was built of .sticks, 

 very slightly lined, and was placed in a low haekberry-tree. The eggs were 

 four in number, and described as white, with a faint bluish tinge, very spar- 

 ingly spotted and blotched with red. 



Parahutio lianisi. 



