FALCO BOREALIS. 
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given, that seemed particularly to belong to this spec'*®: 
As I have been promised specimens of this celebrate 
hawk next winter, a short time will enable me to dctc‘' 
mine the matter more satisfactorily. Few gunners 
that quarter are unacquainted with the duck hawk, as * 
often robs them of their wounded birds before they af® 
able to reach them. 
20 . FALCO SOBEJLIS, WILSON. — BEE-TAILID HAWK. 
WILSON, PLATE LII. FIG. I ADULT. 
Birds naturally thinly dispersed over a vast 
of country ; retiring during summer to the depth of 1® 
forests to breed ; approaching the habitations of i®*"’. 
like other thieves and pluiulerera, with shy and caiitio®* 
jealousy; seldom permitting a near advance; subject 1. 
gi'eat changes of plumage; and, since the decline a 
falcourv, seldom or never domesticated, — offer to the*® 
who wish eagerly to investigate their history, and 
delineate their particular character and manners, g®®®' 
and insunnouiitablo difficulties. Little more can 
done in such cases than to identify the species, 
trace it through the various quarters of the wod 
where it has been certainly met with. 
The red-tiiiled hawk is most frequently seeniii*'“t 
lower parts of Pennsylvania during the severity ® 
winter. Among the extensive meadows that borih’_ 
the Schnylkill and Delaware, below Philadelphia, 
flocks of larks, (alauda magna,') and where mice 
moles are in gi-oat abundance, many individuals o* 
hawk spend the greater part of the winter. Oth*’ ^ 
prowl around the jilantations, looking out for vug®®® 
chickens; their method of seizing which is, by 
ing swiftly over the spot, and grappling them with tj'® 
talons, and so bearing them away to the woods. 
bird, from which the following description was 
