. The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings . SPARBOW HAWK AND ITS PRET. THE SWALLOW-TAILED HAWK. This beautiful Kite breeds and passes the summer in the warmerparts of the United States, and is also probably resident in all tropicaland temperate America, mi-grating into the southern aswell as the northern hemi-sphere. In the former,
. The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings . SPARBOW HAWK AND ITS PRET. THE SWALLOW-TAILED HAWK. This beautiful Kite breeds and passes the summer in the warmerparts of the United States, and is also probably resident in all tropicaland temperate America, mi-grating into the southern aswell as the northern hemi-sphere. In the former, ac-cording to Viellot, it is foundin Peru, and as far as BuenosAyres; and though it is ex-tremely rare to meet withthis sj)ecies as far as the lati-tude of forty degrees in theAtlantic States, yet temptedby the abundance of the fruit-ful valley of the Mississippi,individuals have been seenalong that river as far as theFalls of St. Anthony, in theforty-fourth degree of northlatitude. Indeed, according to Fleming, two stragglers have even foundtheir devious way to the strange climate of Great SWALLOW-TAILED HAWK. 64 THE PEREGRINE FALCON.
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