contained nearly the whole of a ground dove. Mr. Thomas Mc- 

 Ilraith mentions seeing one of these falcons dive into a flocl4 

 of blackbirds on one of the marshes of Ontario, and says: "1 

 once saw him 'stoop' on a flock as they hurried toward the 

 marsh fur shelter. How closely they had huddle<-l together, 

 as if seeking mutual protection, but he went right through 

 the flock and came out on the other side with one in each 

 fist." (Birds of Ontario, ]i>86, p. 14'J.) 



Occasionally the Piyeon Hawk is quite destructive 

 to young chickens, as the following from the pen of 

 the late Dr. William Wood will show: 



"In May, 1860, a gentleman who resides some five miles dis- 

 tant, informed me that a small hawk came almost every 

 day and carried off a chicken for him. » » » -pjig next 

 day the same little hawk returned and was shot, and is now 

 in my collection, a beautiful representative of the Pigeon 

 Hawk." (Am. Nat.. Vol. VU. p. 342.) 



