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pleasure, with never ceasing raucous cries, and came in for 

 their share of our attention. 



But time flies swiftly and the patrol boats have a long way 

 to go, so all too soon we reembarked and were on our way to 

 the next refuge. Battledore was only a dark streak marking 

 the horizon and the broad stretch of silvered sea gradually 

 widened until the little bird refuge slipped from view. 



HARRIS HAWKS IN OHIO. 



BY THOMAS M. EARL. 



On the afternoon of December 29, 1917, I received a 

 parcel by parcels post, the sender being J. H. McKinley, 

 cashier of the Harrisburg Bank of Harrisbiurg, Ohio. The 

 thriving little country town is located some fourteen miles 

 southwest from Columbus and on the border line of Franklin 

 and Pickaway Counties. It was customary for me to receive 

 parcels from my friend McKinley, as he has a fancy for 

 mounted birds, such as hawks, owls and the like, some of 

 which he displays at his home and some at the bank. The 

 parcel in my hand, therefore, excited no curiosity until I 

 opened it and found before me a fine specimen of Harris 

 hawk (Parahuteo nnicinctns harrisi). All of the specimens 

 which Mr. McKinley had previously sent meT knew to have 

 been collected in the vicinity of Harrisburg, but here was 

 one, sent to me without comment as others had been, which 

 I knew was far away from its particular avi-Tipperary, and 

 I could not bring myself to think that it had not been shipped 

 in from the Texan border by some soldier friend perhaps of 

 the cashier. 



Several weeks elapsed before I saw Mr. McKinley per- 

 sonally, when I obtained from him the following statement, 

 which clears up all doubt as to the locality of the capture : 



" The hawk in question was shot by a farmer, living some 

 four miles southwest of Harrisburg, on or about December 

 24, 1917. On the morning of that day a pair of these hawks 

 were molesting this man's poultry and had killed one or two 



