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some go by unmolested because we could not load fast enough to fire at each 

 as it came." A farmer told us of sitting in his front yard one afternoon and 

 shooting fifty-six without leaving his chair. * * * Near the extreme end 

 of the Point is a wooden observatory tower built by the U. S. Lake Survey for 

 the pui-pose of making obseiTations on the changes of the shore contour. It is 

 about fifty feet high, and stands with its base in the red cedar thicket whilst 

 the platform rises well above all surrounding foliage. On this vantage point 

 Saunders and Taverner took their stand the 18th, and with watch in hand 

 counted the Sharp-shins that passed, nearly all within gunshot. From 11 : 24 

 to 11 : 54, 281 passed us, 207 making for the end of the Point and 74 returning, 

 making 133 that started across the lake within half an hour. As far as we 

 could make out without remaining on the spot the whole time this rate was 

 kept up all day and every day of the gi'eatest abundance of the species. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — North and Central America, casual or accidental in the 

 Bahama Islands and in Bermuda. 



Breeding range. — The breeding range of the sharp-shinned ha^Yk 

 extends north to Alaska (Nulato, Salcha Slough, and the Kandik 

 River) : Yukon (probably La Pierre House) ; Mackenzie (probably 

 Fort Good Hope, Lake Hardisty, and Lake Mackay) ; northern 

 Saskatchewan (probably Otter Lake) ; Manitoba (probably Norway 

 House, Oxford House, and York Factory) ; probably northern On- 

 tario (Long Portage) ; Quebec (Godbout and Anticosti Island) ; and 

 Newfoundland (Raleigh). East to Newfoundland (Raleigh) ; Nova 

 Scotia (Kentville and Halifax) ; Maine (Bangor, Auburn, and Port- 

 land) ; New Hampshire (Franklin Falls and Webster) ; Massachu- 

 setts (Taunton, Dennis, and Marthas Vineyard) ; New York (Lake 

 Grove) ; New Jersey (Pensauken Creek and Sea Isle City) ; Dela- 

 ware (Lincoln) ; Virginia (Variety Mills and Lynchburg) ; North 

 Carolina (Raleigh) ; and probably northern Florida (Alachua 

 County and Hernando County). South to probably northern Flor- 

 ida (Hernando County and St. Marks) ; Alabama (Greensboro) ; 

 Arkansas (Newport and Clinton) ; Texas (Texarkana and Edin- 

 burgh) ; New Mexico (Santa Fe Canyon, Lake Burford, and Mount 

 Sedgwick) ; Arizona (Tombstone and Huachuca Mountains) ; and 

 southern California (Inyo Mountains). West to California (Inyo 

 Mountains, Star Lake, Mount Sanhedrin, Mineral, and Redding) ; 

 Oregon (Klamath Falls, Bandon, Newport, Salem, Dayton, and 

 Beaverton) ; Washington (Mount Rainier, Olympia, and Neah Bay) ; 

 British Columbia (Langley, Alta Lake, Cariboo, and Masset) ; and 

 Alaska (Kupreanof Island, Admiralty Island, Bethel, and Nulato). 



Sharp-shinned hawks were seen in August on the Kowak River, 

 Alaska (Grinnell, 1900), and one was taken at Moose Factory, 

 northern Ontario, in September 1862. 



Winter range. — In winter the species is found north with fair 

 regularity to southern British Columbia (Victoria and Chilliwack) ; 



