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otluT hawks do so. Instead tliey take a course nearer the Old Dnnnny 

 Light and well to the east of the island. As far as we could discern 

 their forms with our glasses they followed a straight and uudeviating' 

 course that would land them on the Ohio shoi'e some four or five 

 miles to the east of the city of Sandusky. It would be most interest- 

 ing to work this shore at the right season and see just where they do 

 enter American territory. 



On the mainland the flight seems to come from the east. Saunders 

 says, "Since then (1882) I find it well known by the farmers that 

 there is a hawk flight (of these birds no doubt) west along the north 

 shore every year." It is certain that it must take a large area of ter- 

 ritory to furnish this great number of hawks on migration, and it is 

 an indication of the extent of country drained by this migration route. 

 We have also heard that there is a return flight in spring, some time 

 in April, but we have never seen it and are unable to say what are 

 the species participating in it. It is said, however, that this spring 

 movement is nothing like as great as the fall one, but it is regular and 

 well enough marked to be noted by the farmers and other residents. 



Altogether, it will be readily understood that this flight made a 

 great impression upon us all, and as it seems unique, in many of its 

 phases, in the annals of ornithology, it forms one of the most import- 

 ant and interesting memories of Point Pelee. 



70. *Acc!t)iter coopcrl, — Cooper's Hawk. 



A fairly common hawk, and through all our summer visits we have 

 usually seen a few daily. They do not seiem to increase in numbers 

 during the Sharp-shin migration, and the only tendency to a "flight" 

 of this species that we have observed was Oct. 14, 1006, when fifteen 

 were seen or talien. Several were noted May 30 to June 1, but we 

 have no other spring dates, and our earliest fall one is August 28, 

 1907. 



71. *Accipitcr atricapillits, — American Goshawk. 



The fall of 190G was notable for the abundance of Goshawks in 

 certain parts of Ontario, and Point Pelee got its share of them. The 

 first intimation we had of their presence was a large hawk that we 

 could refer to no other species seen October 1.5 near the end of the 

 Point. It was not until Oct. 21 that our identification received con- 

 firmatory evidence when Gardner sent us an adult male, followed 

 by others Oct. 23 to Nov. 14 — ten birds in all. Gardner reported them 

 until Jan. 18, when the last one was seen (see Auk XXIV, 1907, p. 

 142). The flight in this section seemed confined to the Ontario- 

 Michigan boundary and its immediate vicinity on the Canadian side, 

 and there were no reports of any having crossed the lake into .Ohio. 



72. ^Biitco borcalis. — Red-tailed Hawk. 



We have never foiuid any of the Buteos common at the Point. 



