Word: peregrinus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge pigeonry has lost at least 30 of its members since the hawk--Falco Peregrinus Anatum--arrived on October 16, according to a count made by Peter L. Ames '53 of the Ornithological Society. Ames climbed the tower last Friday with the clockwinder to count carcasses dropped by the hawk from the upper roof...
...Babcock of the Maintenance Department have been unfair to a superb creature when you refer to the Memorial Hall pigeon-killer as a "huge chicken hawk." Leaving aside the fact there is no recognized species of "chicken hawk," this particular bird is a Duck Hawk (Falco peregrinus anatum), the American version of the falcon, traditionally used for hunting...
...Falco peregrinus anatum, a duck hawk or maybe two duck hawks, will be as inviolable as last year's owl, Chief Alvin R. Randall of the University Police promised last night...
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