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six of these mergansers at Unalaska — Wetmore also had observed 

 them here on June 6 and 7, 1911, and had collected a specimen. 



At Unalaska Island, Cahn (1947) found a brood of 9 young 

 in the Makushin Valley swamp, June 23, 1944, and he observed 

 a brood of 11 downy young on Coxcomb Lake, July 4, 1945. 



On August 15, 1937, we flushed a female from a grass-topped 

 islet off the shore of Amlia Island. We had found 3 pairs on 

 Kiska Island, June 4 and 5, where Wetmore had seen 1 pair 

 in June 1911. We found a foot of red-breasted merganser in an 

 eagle's nest on Buldir. On June 17, we saw a flock of 7 at Semichi 

 Islands; 6 were noted on Amchitka Island. Incidentally, Dall 

 (1874) had reported that Amchitka was the only place in the 

 western Aleutians where this species had been observed. 



In 1936, we noted a flock of seven red-breasted mergansers on 

 Corwin Lake, Atka Island, June 22. Several were seen on 

 Kanaga, June 29, and eight were seen in a lake on Kiska, July 

 26. At Adak Island, July 3, two were seen in Bay of Islands, and 

 three or four in Kuluk Bay. June 26-27, 1911, Wetmore found 

 them to be fairly common in the small lakes back of Bay Water- 

 falls, Adak Island, where he found a brood of nine downy young 

 about a week old — he suspected that there was a brood in another 

 lake. And on September 3, 1944, Gabrielson found a brood on 

 Amchitka, thus definitely establishing a nesting record for that 

 part of the Aleutian chain. 



The Attu chief said that these ducks nest on Attu, and Atka 

 natives reported them nesting on their island. Turner also re- 

 ported them nesting on Atka. 



We can definitely state that the red-breasted merganser nests 

 from Kodiak to Attu, and, according to Stejneger (1885), it is 

 a very common breeding bird in the Commander Islands. 



Apparently, it winters in the Aleutians also (though perhaps 

 in small numbers), because Taber (1946) observed them at 

 Adak from December 9, 1945, to January 13, 1946. 



Family ACCIPITRIDAE 



Acdpiter gentilis: Goshawk 

 Accipiter gentilis atricapillus 



The goshawk occurs on Kodiak Island, as shown by specimens 

 recorded by Friedmann (1935). Harrold saw one on Sitkalidak 

 Island, near Kodiak, in May 1927 (Swarth 1934). Howell (1948) 

 found a goshawk nest July 9, 1944, located in a 35-foot spruce at 

 Middle Bay, Kodiak Island— there was a single young, which- flew 



