1909] The Ottawa Naturalist. 161 



Henslow's, Sharp-tailed and Grasshopper, are the highest 

 plumaged specimens that I have. 



I would not like to injure the reputation of the members of 

 the camp as wing shots by stating that we fired many times to get 

 these three Henslow's, but certainly we used more than three 

 cartridges. I think they are the most difficult shooting that I 

 know. Getting up at one's feet with an exceptionally jerky 

 flight, they travel, perhaps 20, perhaps 100 yards, before dropping 

 into the grass, but there is no moment of that exposure that 

 they are not difficult to hit. The novice in wing shooting got two 

 in two shots, the rest of us got one in all the rest of the shots, 

 which were a good many. 



One of the rarest hawks in our collections is the Duck Hawk. 

 Sometimes at the Point we have the pleasure of seeing one of 

 these perhaps the best flyers of all the North American Fal- 

 conidae, but we have never taken one at the Point. On Sunday 

 morning I was early at the observatory tower and was delighted 

 to see within 100 yards, on top of the life saving building, a 

 Duck Hawk in young plumage. There he sat and waited. 

 Within 30 yards of me came a bright plumaged Cape May 

 Warbler, into a red cedar, so when the next man arrived I had 

 the pleasure of offering him, for choice of seeing, first the Cape 

 May Warbler and then the Duck Hawk; he naturallv chose the 

 Hawk, and I promptly produced it and then followed* the 

 Warbler. When Tavern er arrived, he announced that he was 

 going to photograph the Hawk, and left for that purpose. _ We 

 arranged a code of signals by which we could inform him if the 

 Hawk v.-as becoming nervous and likely to fly, but we had no 

 opportunity of using them, and on the photographer's return, 

 his remark was, "Well, some hawks are the limit." It turned 

 out that he had been able to walk in full view, as close to the 

 hawk as the slope of the roof would allow, perhaps 20 yards, 

 and there set up his camera, but in order to get a good photo- 

 graph he wanted the hawk to look at him and it was necessary 

 to throw his handkerchief in the air to attract its attention. 

 Later on we were informed that one of the boys nearby had 

 been throwing stones at a hawk on top of this same building 

 and had not been able to scare it away. Duck Hawks are 

 certainlv not given to this kind of behaviour. 



The Cardinals had not recovered from their hawk scare, 

 and only two were heard and none seen by the members of the 

 partv. Bird feathers were numerous and varied. At one place 

 we found the fresh remains of tv/o Thrashprs, and besides 

 numerous Thrushes we saw feathers of the Phoebe, Whip-poor- 

 will, White-throated Sparrow, Sora Rail and others 



For a Ion? time we had been observing flocks of Bonaparte s 



