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Title: Handbook of birds of eastern North America : with keys to the species, and descriptions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migrations ...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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winters fromthe Southern States southward to South America. Washington, not uncommon T. V. Sing Sing, tolerably common T. V.,Apl. 1 to May 11; Aug. 10 to Oct. 15. Cambridge, common T. V., Apl. 10 toMay 5; Sept. and Oct.; occasional in winter. Nest., in trees, in hollow limbs, or on cliffs. Eggs, four to five, varyingfrom creamy white, more or less heavily marked with reddish brown or choco-late, to reddish brown marked with shades of the same color, 1-65 x 120. This Falcon, with the exception possibly of the Broad-wingedHawk, is the least shy of all our diurnal birds of prey, and oftenmay be approached within a few rods. It frequents the more opencountry and edges of woods, and is common along the shores of largebodies of water. . . . The flight is very rapid and resembles that of the Wild Pigeonquite closely; nor does the similarity end here, for while sitting on atree the general poise is that of a Pigeon in repose, and specimenshave been mistaken and shot for the latter bird. . . .
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Sparrow Hawk and young. FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 211 Of 56 stomachs examined, 2 contained poultry; 41, small birds;2, mice; 16, insects; and 5 were empty (Fisher). The Merlim (358.1. Faleo regulus) and the Kestrel (359.1. Falco tinnun-culus)^ both Old-World species, have each been recorded once from this sideof the Atlantic, the Merlin from Greenland, the Kestrel from Massachusetts(Cory, Auk, v, 1888, pp. 110, 205). 360. Falco sparverius TAnn. American Sparrow Hawk. Ad. ^ .—Back rufous, more or less barred with black; tail rufous, a black band nearits end, the tip white; head slaty blue, with generally a rufous spot on thecrown; wing-coverts slaty blue, primaries barred with white; a black markbefore and behind the white ear-coverts ; under parts varying from cream-butf to ochraceous-butf; belly and sides spotted with black. Ad. ?.—Back,tail, and wing-coverts rufous, barred with black; liead as in the male; underparts more or less heavily streaked with dark ochraceous-butf. hn

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