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tant to fly or hide. August 11, a covey of ten birds, the young grown al- 

 most to adult size, was found in blueberry bushes near a spruce swamp. 

 The birds .walked deliberately away, much like a flock of hens. On numer- 

 ous occasions birds were found in low trees, and were then very easily ap- 

 proached. 



On July 13 a female grouse with a number of chicks was found in the 

 burned pine lands not far from camp. The chicks were only a few days 

 old, but were so clever at concealment, that, in spite of an apparent lack of 

 any cover, but three were found. 



13. Circus hudsonius. Marsh Hawk. — This species was recorded three 

 times in July and four times in August. The first bird seen was a beautiful 

 male flying over Brown Lake, July 2. Later in July another male, quite 

 possibly the same one, was noted about the cabin clearing. During the 

 last two weeks of the field work several females and young lairds were noted. 



14. Accipiter velox. Sharp-shinned Hawk. — A single bird of this species 

 was noted about the barns at Holmes Farm, August 24. 



15. Accipiter cooperi. Cooper's Hawk. — A single individual was seen in 

 the burned lands about Jackson Lake, July 12. Several times it flushed a 

 flock of sandpipers about the lake shores, but made no attempt to capture 

 them. The species was not recorded again. 



16. Buteo borealis borealis. Red-tailed Hawk. — This hawk was noted at 

 intervals during the summer. The first was seen and heard on July 1, and 

 by its actions it had a nest in the vicinity even then, but if so it was not 

 found. On several subsequent occasions, one and, more rarely, two birds 

 were seen in the same locality, hunting over the burned lands. In August 

 the species was seen more frequently than in the preceding month, which 

 might have been due either to the beginning of migration or merely to the 

 advent of a few broods of locally reared young. 



17. Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus. Bald Eagle. — A bald eagle 

 w^as seen flj'ing over Holmes Farm on August 18 by Dr. Ruthven. This is 

 the only record for the summer. 



18. Falco sparverius sparverius. Sparrow Hawk. — A single bird of this 

 species was recorded, July 1(5, from the burned- lands near Brown Lake. 

 It furnished the only July record, but on August 13 the species suddenly 

 became common, and was noted daily until the twentieth. A flock of a 

 score at least collected about an area covered with a grass that supported 

 numbers of grasshoppers and gorged themselves with these insects. The 

 birds were unusually fearless at this time, but as they gradually decreased 

 in numbers they became more shy. On the twentieth of August about ten 

 of them still remained in the locality, but after that morning no more were 

 seen. 



19. Pandion haliaetus carolinensis. Osprey. — A single osprey was seen 

 over Brown Lake on August 19. It did not linger about the lake, but soon 

 departed. 



20. Bubo virginianus pallescens. Great Horned Owl. — This species was 

 recorded twice during the summer. The first was observed just at evening 

 on July 29. It was perched in a large dead tree at the edge of Brown Lake. 

 The second was seen in a biuMied tamarack and spruce swamp. 



21. Coccyzus erythrophthalmus. Bhuk-l)ill('d Cuckoo. — A single bird of 

 this species was taken in a burned tamarack swamp, July 1. 



22. Ceryle alcyon. Belted Kingfisher. — This bird was seen daily about 

 the lakes and rivers, usually singly, more rarely in pairs. The birds ranged 

 widely along the water courses, and were generally shy. They often pre- 



