RAPTURES— FALCONIDAE— NISUS FUSCUS. 



417 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. ■ 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. Bill. 



Tarsus. 



439 



440 

 470 

 4S2 

 489 



85 1 



9jun. 



9 ad. 

 S ad. 



<?jun. 

 9 ad. 

 <?jun- 

 $)\xn. 

 9jun. 





Sept. 10, 1S71 

 . do 



F. Bischoff 











do 



do 













Nov. 26, 1S72 

 do 



H. W. Henshaw and 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 

 do 











do 













Nov. 30, 1872 

 Dec. 1, 1872 

 Dec. 2, 1872 

 Sept. 24, 1S73 



do 











do 



do 











do 



. do 











Camp Grant, Ariz 



H. W. Henshaw 



13-4° 



8.60 



0.63 



2.S6 



NISUS -FUSCUS, Gruel. 

 Sharpcd-shinned Hawk. 



Falcofuscus, Gmel., Syst. Nat., 1780, 2S3. 



Accipiter fuscus, Bd., Stans. Rep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 314. — WooDn., Sit- 

 greave's Exp. Zuiii & Col. Riv., 1854, Gl.— Newb., P. R. P. Pep., vi, 1857, 

 74.— Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 18.— Heerm., P. P. P. Rep., x, pt, iv, 1859, 

 33.— Bd., U. S. & Mex. Bound Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 3.— Coues, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1S06, 43.— Cooper, Birds Cal., 1870, 400.— Stev., 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 212.— Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 4.— Merriam. 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 697.— Cotjes, Birds Northwest, 1874, 332. 



Nisus fuscus, Bd., Brew., & Pidg., N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 224.— Yarrow & IIenshaw, 

 Pep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 25.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. 

 Specs., 1S73, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, C8, 138. 



Not uncommon in Nevada and Utah. A beautiful adult pair were 

 taken in Beaver Canon September 24. Upon one occasion, while watching 

 a pair of doves feeding upon the ground, a female of this species made a 

 daring and successful swoop upon one of them, passing within a few feet of 

 the observer's head. As a further illustration of the bravery and hardihood 

 with which this bird pursues its prey, it may be mentioned that one was 

 observed in the town of Panquitch eagerly pursuing a common pigeon, 

 apparently oblivious of the presence of spectators, who, for some time, 

 vainly endeavored to drive it away. Such was its determination that it 

 actually followed the pigeon into a deserted house, but was finally obliged 

 to retire without accomplishing its objeet. 



In Arizona and New Mexico, it is one of the most numerous of the 

 hawks, inhabiting the country with little regard to nature of locality. In the 

 fall, when the small birds and gather in favored spots about the streams, this 

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