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Sharp-shinned Hawk. "Pigeon Hawk" "Little Hen 



Hawk." "Bird Hawk." Accipiter velox. Wils. 



SEX. 



DATE. 



Food Material. 



KEMAKKS. 



Male, yg- | October 3, 1886, .... 

 Eemale, ad | November 26, 1886, . 



Small bird. 

 X 



English sparrow. 



Song- sparrow. (M. fasciata) 



Sparrow Hawk. "Mouse Hawk." "Bird Hawk." 



backed Hawk." Falco sparverius. Linn. 



'Blue- 



Red-shouldered Hawk. "Winter Falcon." "Henhawk." 



"Strip -tailed Hawk." Buteo lineatus. Gmel. 



SEX. 



DATE. 



Field-mice. Insects. 



REMAKES. 



January 3, 1886, . . . 

 " 20, " ... 

 February 22, 1886,.. 



Aj>ril 3, 1886 



November 23, 1886.. 

 December 2, " . 

 I, " . 

 November 29, ■' 



X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 



X 

 X 



X 

 X 

 X 



Principally grasshoppers. 

 Black colored beetles. 



Grasshoppers. 

 *Hair of mammal. 



•NOTE.— The tdzzard of this bird contained a few hairs of field mouse and some lonK- black 

 hairs which appeai-ed very much like that of a skunk. The bird on dissection g-ave a very decided 

 odor of I'ole-cat. 



**The tables .«ivinfr food materials of different species of hawks refer only to birds on which 

 bounty has been paid under "Sf^alp Act.'" B. H. W\RREN. 



Siuci' the above has been written forty odd hawks and owls on which bounty has been paid have 

 been examined ; one bird, a Red-! ailed hawk, was found to have fed on chicken only: a second 

 example of the same s]>ecies had in its (fi/.zard remains of a chicken, and portions of a field mouse. 

 Two hed-tailed hawks had fed on red squrrels, another pair of Red-tailed hawks had taken rab- 

 bits. Eig-ht sparrow hawks, included in this series of forty odd birds, revealed chiefly mice and 

 grasshoppers. 



The lemainrier of these forty odd birds, ten of which were Screech and Long-eared owls, had in 

 their viscera chiefly field or meadow mice. The owls, with the excejition of one Screech owl that 

 had in its stomach an English Sparrow, had all subsisted on mice and insects. priuci[)ally grasa- 



B. H. WARREN, 



A. K Fisher, Assistant Ornithologist U. S. 



Departmt^nt of 

 15, 1887, ad- 

 received eight 



hopi'ers 



Dr. A. K Fisher, Assistant Ornithologist U. 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C, in a letter dated Jan. 

 dressed to Dr. B. H. Warren, says: '"Wednesday I 

 adult Hed tail's and two Red-shouldered Hawks from a man in Mary- 

 land. * * * I fii,(^ nothing but mice and shretvs in their crops and 

 stomachs [from two to five in etch]. I found two specimens oi Sorex 

 and the following specimens of mice : Mus musculus, Hesperomys 

 leucopus, Arvicolx ripArius and Arvicoii. pinetoxum. The hawks had 

 been killed bf^cause they had 'killed' chickens and 'quails.' " 



At a meeting of said Society, held Dec. 9, 1886, the same committee 

 made the following report : 



The (Committee appointed to take into consideration an act entit- 

 led "An Act for the destruction of wolves, wild cats, foxes, minks, 



