A falcon, believed to have been released from or to have escaped from some ship at sea, was killed by J.M. Matthews of Elizabeth City in Pasquotank River Tuesday evening of this week. Mr. Matthews was fishing near the Old Brick House when the bird plunged into a clump of bushes near his boat. The bird became entangled in the bushes and Mr. Matthews dealt it a vital blow with a boat oar just as it extricated itself. The bird, weighing less than five pounds, measured five feet seven inches from tip to tip. Except for its enormous spread of wings, it much resembled the common hawk, to which family the falcon belongs.
The falcon killed by Mr. Matthews had been banded with a brass band on which certain letters of the Greek alphabet and certain figures had been scratched with some sharp instruments.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 29, 1922
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