ridge, and then through an inner partition of. 
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78 " F, Mr. Peabody on the 
letting them drop into the water below ; after killing 
a sufficient number, he picked them up one after 
another and carried them to the shore. This bird is " 
so savage and voracious, tliat it has been known to 
eat the young of its own species, when destitute ri 
other food. # 
The American Brown, or SLATE COLORED Hawk, 
Falco fuscus, is now known to be the same with 
F. velor, and F. Pennsylvanicus, which Wilson 
described as distinct species, though not without 
suspicions that they might turn out to be the same 
with others formerly known. It is not common in 
New England, but is said to abound in the thinly 
settled parts of the southern states, where it often 
makes great havoc among the domestic poultry, 
which it seizes and carries off in the very sight 
of the farmer. We learn from Nuttall, that one of 
them, in pursuit of his prey, burst through the glass 
of the green-house in the Botanic garden at Cam- 
re, his wing feathers being to by the glass, 4 
he was arrested in the attempt Tie through —— 
a third. Wilson speaks of the slate-colored hawk Tu 
as found in the Atlantic states. generally ; but its — 
numbers anywhere must be small. Its nest was 
found by Audubon, in one instance, in a hole in a 
rock, in others, built with sticks on trees. 
Cooprn's Hawx, Falco Cooperii, was named by 
Bonaparte, i in I onor of Mr. William Cooper of New 
York. It is added to the list of our birds, on the 
