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FAMILY FALCONID/E.—FALCONS, ETC. 
SUBGENUS RHYNCHODON. 
[856-A]. Falco peregrinus anatum (Bonaparte). Duck 
Hawk. 
[Bullet Hawk]. 
Raner.—North and South America. Breeds locally 
(except in northwest Coast region) from Norton Sound, 
Alaska, northern Mackenzie, Boothia Peninsula, and west- 
ern central Greenland, south to central Lower California, 
Arizona, southwestern Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, 
Pennsylvania, and Connecticut (in mountains to South 
Carolina) ; winters from southern British Columbia, Col- 
orado, and New Jersey (occasionally further north) to the 
West Indies and Panama, occurs algo in southern South 
America. 
These birds migrate sparingly through Tidewater Vir- 
ginia during early October, though one bird at least has 
wintered in the vicinity of Washington, where it fed on 
the pigeons around the Government buildings, until shot. 
Years ago it was quite common on our coast, and was re- 
ported to have bred in the vicinity of Harpers Ferry.* I 
have noted only a single bird, April 20th, in Tidewater 
Virginia, while Professor Smyth reports a single bird 
also in October. It does, though, breed in our mountains, 
depositing its eggs in a slight hollow of a crevice in the 
face of a cliff. They usually lay four eggs, the ground a 
handsome buff, heavily spotted and blotched with rich 
*Rives’ Catalogue of the Birds of the Virginias, p. 62, No. 131. 
