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Buteo lineatus. The most common hawk except the Fish 

 Hawk at Enterprise ; abundant everywhere on the St. Johns 

 and Lakes ; none seen near the sea-coast ; smaller and brighter 

 colored than northern specimens. 



Halia'etKS leucocephalus. Very abundant ; at Spring-Garden 

 Lake I saw several pairs nesting on the tops of palmetto trees, 

 though there were tall pines in the immediate vicinity. 



Nauclerus furcatus. I found this beautiful hawk to be far 

 less abundant than I had expected. I saw none on the sea-coast, 

 and not more than a dozen on the St. Johns. 



Ephialtes asio. Near the house I resided in at New Smyrna, 

 there was an old picket fence constructed of palmetto logs ; a 

 large number of these had been excavated by the Red-bellied 

 Woodpecker, and in their deserted holes I found three nests of 

 the little Red Owl. In every instance the female was sitting on 

 her eggs, and allowed me to take her in my hand without making 

 any resistance. They were all in full plumage, without any indi- 

 cation of the mottled plumage of the young. Although it would 

 certainly seem a fair inference that the little Red Owl was ex- 

 tremely abundant in that part of Florida, I saw but one other 

 individual during my stay there. ^ 



Buho Virginianus. Near New Smyrna there are three large 

 stone pillars that mark the site of a house burnt by the Indians. 

 They stand near the water, and are entirely exposed to the light 

 of the sun ; yet, on the top of one of them, a pair of great Horned 

 Owls had made their nest, and the female could be seen sitting 

 on her eggs in the full blaze of the sun. The top of the pillar 

 not being accessible, on account of its height and ruinous state, 

 I could not examine the nest. Much to my regret, before the 

 young were hatched the parent bird was shot. 



Tyrannus Dominicensis. The distribution of this bird is ap- 

 parently quite irregular ; on one small key, not an acre in extent, 

 I have counted four pairs ; and on many others, and among them 

 some of the largest, I did not see a single individual. They 

 seemed to prefer what Audubon calls dove keys, which are cov- 

 ered with grass or bushes, and are either skirted round the mar- 

 gin with trees, or else have a few scattered trees here and there. 

 I saw none at the Marquis, none at the Miami, or in the neigh- 

 borhood of Indian River, but at New Smyrna they were quite 



