Accipiter Palumbarius

by Mark Catesby

$900 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine image from Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, the most famous colour-plate book of American plant and animal life...a fundamental and original work for the study of American species Hunt . A small, nimble falcon resembling the peregrine falcon in miniature, the pigeon-hawk is one of the rarest types of falcon. It primarily subsists on small birds and insects and today does not commonly frequent the regions in which Catesby

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