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PIGEON-HAWK. 



we have; and makes great havoc among pigeons 

 as well as partridges. It builds in hollow trees, in 

 old nests of crows, large ruins, and high rocks, 

 and lays four white eggs, encircled near the blunter 

 end with red specks." 



Monsieur Brisson mentions a variety of the 

 Sparrow-Hawk, spotted and otherwise varied with 

 white ; and Mr. Latham records an elegant speci- 

 men entirely of a milk-white colour, which was 

 shot in Dorsetshire. *1 



PIGEON-HAWK. 



Falco columbarius. F. griseus, suhtus albus maculis oblongis 



7iigris, Cauda fusca f asciis quatuor cinereis. 

 Grey Hawk, white beneath with oblong black spots, and brown 



tail crossed by four grey bands. 

 Falco columbarius. F. cera pedibusque luteis, corpore fusco 



subtus albido, cauda fusca f asciis linearibus quatuor albis. Lin, 



Si/st. Nat. 

 Pigeon Hawk. Cafesb. Carol. I. pi. 3. 



This is a North-American species, and seems to 

 have been first described by Catesby in his Natural 

 History of Carolina. It usually measures about 

 ten or twelve inches in length, and is of a blueish 

 grey colour above, with a dark or blackish streak 

 on each feather : the quill-feathers are dusky, and 

 marked on their inner webs with large, oval, white 

 spots: the tail is long, of a black colour tipped 

 with white, and crossed by four bands of blueish 



