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The Peregrine occurs at intervals in all suitable places 

 in North America, and it is not a little remarkable that 

 its extensive breeding range should have only lately been 

 ascertained. Mr. Allen, with the assistance of Mr. C. 

 W. Bennett and Dr. W. Wood, of East Windsor Hill, 

 Connecticut, have been conspicuous in elaborating the 

 history of the species, and especially in establishing the 

 fact that it regularly breeds on several of the mountains 

 in and near the Connecticut River Valley. Mr. Board- 

 man reports the same item from Grand Menan, where, 

 he says, the bird is resident, and regularly breeds on the 



Fig. 22. — Duck Hawk. 



cliffs. Dr. Wood, in the Hartford Times of June 29, 

 1 86 1, states that four nearly fledged young were taken 

 from a nest on Talcott Mountain, near Hartford, June i, 

 1 86 1, the female parent being shot. Writing in 1864 

 (Pr. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, p. 50), Mr, Allen states that 

 Mr. Bennett took young birds, " a few years since," on 

 Mount Tom, near Springfield, Massachusetts. Shortly 

 afterward, Mr. Allen announced the discovery of the eggs 

 by Mr. Bennett, on Mount Tom, April 19, 1864; these 

 were the first known to have been procured in New 

 England, or, indeed, in the United States. The unusual 

 interest attaching to his article induces us to quote at 

 some length : 



