196 Mearns on Birds at Fort Klamath. 



57. Accipiter fuscus (Gmelin). Sharp-shinned Hawk. — No. 45, 

 9 ad., 1875. 



58. Accipiter cooperi {Bonaparte). Cooper's Hawk. — Septem- 

 ber 2, 1874 (McElderry). 



59. Astur atricapillus (Wilson). Goshawk. — Mr. Henry W. 

 Henshaw secured a fine specimen about tbe last of August, 1878, about 

 fourteen miles south of Fort Klamath. 



60. Falco mexicanus polyagrus, Cassin. Prairie Falcon. — 

 Hospital list (McElderry). 



61. Falco sparverius (Linne"). Sparrow Hawk. No. 57, 9 ad., 

 May 9, 1878 ; No. 85, $ juv. Tail with a broad terminal band of pale 

 rufous ; subterrainal portion and two spots on middle of inner left rectrix, 

 black ; residue of tail, dark rufous. The rufous of back is crossed by a 

 few broad bars of black, each primary broadly tipped with very pale 

 rufous or buff. This specimen was found dead upon the floor of a barn, 

 in an emaciated condition, August, 1875 {McElderry). Occasionally ob- 

 served (Wittich). 



62. Buteo swainsoni, Bonaparte. Swainson's Hawk. — No. 46, 

 9 ad., 1875. 



63. Pandion haliaetus carolinensis (Gmelin). American Os- 

 prey ; Fish-Hawk. — A summer resident ; numerous on the rivers and 

 about the Klamath lakes (Wittich). Breeds ( Henshaw 1. 



64. Haliaetus leucocephalus (Linne'). White-headed Eagle. — 

 Common along the rivers, and especially on Upper Klamath Lake. 

 Breeds ( Wittich). Dr. J. S. Newberry gives the following : * It " is.very 

 common at the cascades of the Columbia and at the falls of the Willa- 

 mette, and still more abundant about the chain of lakes which cover so 

 large a surface in the Klamath Basin. On the shores of Upper Klamath 

 Lake, quite to my regret, a large number of these noble birds were shot 

 by our party. So long, century after century, parent and offspring, had 

 they reigned there in undisputed supremacy, with no enemy more formida- 

 ble than the arrow-armed Indian, of whose missiles they had learned the 

 range, that they exhibited little of the shyness so characteristic of the 

 tribe to which they belong. On some point of rock, or dwarfed pine, pro- 

 jecting from the wall of trap which, to the height of 1,000 feet, borders 

 the eastern shore of the lake, beyond bowshot, the Bald Eagles sat, and 

 viewed our approach with calm indifference, permitting themselves to be 

 brought within easy range of the rifles, and too many of them falling a 

 sacrifice to man's passion for doing what he can, simply because he can." 



65. Rhinogryphus aura (Linne). Turkey Buzzard. — Hospital 

 list {McElderry). 



66. Zenaedura carolinenaiB (Linne). Mourning Dove. — May 

 2, 1875 (McElderry). 



* Pacific Railroad Report, Vol. VI, Pt. IV, p. 74, 1857. 



