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Gray, 111. of Indian Zoology, II, Plate XXVI, It is, however, larger, 

 and, in all points of organization, a more robust and powerful species. 

 Young birds having been brought from California, by Dr. Heermann, 

 it is certainly a species which permanently inhabits Western America. 

 According to Mr. Peale, the specimen in the collection of the Expedi- 

 tion was obtained at Puget's Somid, and the same species was seen 

 rearing its young in Oregon. 



2. Genus TINNUNCULUS, Vieill. Ois. d'Am. Sept. I, p. 39 (1807). 

 1. TiNNUNCULUS SPAEVERius {Linn). — The Sparrow Hawk. 



Falco sparverius, LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 128 (1766). 

 Falco clominicensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 285 (1788.) 



Vieill. Ois. d'Am. Sept. I, Plate XII, XIII; Buff. PI. Enl. 4G5 ; 

 Wilson, Am. Orn. II, Plate XVI, fig. 4, Plate XXXII, fig. 2 ; And. 

 B. of Am. Plate XLII ; Oct. ed. I, Plate XXII. 



This beautiful little hawk appears to inhabit the entire continent of 

 America. It was observed by the naturalists of the Expedition to be 

 common in Oregon and California, and also in Brazil and other parts 

 of South America. 



All the specimens in the collection appear to be strictly identical 

 with the species of the United States. 



3. Genus lERAClDEA, Goull, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 140. 

 1. Ieracidea nova zealandi^ {Gmelin). — The New Zealand Falcon. 



Falco nova zealandice, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 268 (1788), 



Falco brunneus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 139. 



Falco harpe, FoRSTER, Desc. An. p. 68 (1844). ' 



Falco ferox, Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 67 (1st edition, 1848).* 



Falco australis, HoMB. et Jacq. Ann. des Sci. Nat. XVI, p. 312 (1841). 



* " Head and back of a uniform dark sepia-brown ; tail of the same color, having six 

 very narrow, pale, tawny bars ; feathers of the crown and nape light-cinereous at the 

 base, which gradually runs into the dark sepia of the surface ; brow ferruginous ; auri- 

 cular brown; the lower feathers edged with ferruginous; throat pale-bulF, nearly white; 



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