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22. Buteo borealis (Gmel.) Red-tailed Hawk. 
Moderately common, though never abundant. The hawk most frequently, 
and very often falsely, accredited with all the barnyard depredations. 
23. Halicetus leucocephalus (Linn.) Bald Eagle. 
Occasionally reported as passing through. 
24. Faleo sparverius (Linn.) American Sparrow Hawk. 
An abundant hawk. 
25. Pandion halicetus carolinensis (Gmel.) Osprey. 
Occurring casually along the White Water, though I have no record of it 
breeding. 
26. Syrnium nebulosum (Forst.) Barred Owl. 
A moderately common, or rather uncommon, resident. 
27. Megascops asio (Linn.) Screech Owl. 
An abundant owl. Resident. 
28. Bubo virginianus (Gmel.) Great-horned Owl. 
A tolerably common resident. 
29. Nyctea nyctea (Linn.) Snowy Owl. 
Occasionally straggling down during winter. 
30.  Coceyzus americanus (Linn.) Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 
A remarkably abundant bird in this vicinity ; more abundant, I believe, than 
I have ever observed it elsewhere. Arrives usually during the first week in May 
and becomes common about a week after the first migrants have put in their 
appearance. 
31.  Ceryle aleyon (Linn.) Belted Kingfisher. 
An abundant bird along all our creeks and brooks, and only.forced south- 
ward by their freezing over. Ihad thought that during the past winter (1896-97), 
when the temperature went down as low as 18 or 20 degrees below zero, they cer- 
tainly had all left ourstreams and retired to the South. I was, however, informed 
by a boy who works near a mill race that during the coldest days, when the river 
was frozen over to a thickness of several inches, he observed a pair of these birds 
which frequented the mill race to avail themselves of the flood of water which at 
regular intervals was turned into the race from the ice-bound river, by this means 
being enabled to obtain at least enough of their finny prey to furnish them with 
a tolerable subsistence. An instance of this kind has never come under my 
notice before, though I doubt not that Alcyon often avails himself of such agencies 
when stern nature would have ordered him otherwise. 
