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to be upheld as a breeding record for that State. This explanation is here 

 made in order that the facts in this case may be available to workers in 

 Michigan ornithology. By the elimination of this record the eastern 

 known limits of the breeding range of Numenius americanus americaniis 

 become restricted to southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. — Harry C. 

 Oberholser, Washington, D. C. 



The Rough-legged Hawk (Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis) at 

 Washington, D. C. — The Rough-legged Hawk is of sufficient rarity in 

 the District of Columbia to warrant placing on record a specimen which 

 came into my possession on January 1, 1918. The bird, wounded and 

 unable to fly, was picked up by some boys in the open country north of 

 Woodridge, close to the eastern line of the District. Previous records 

 from this region are as follows: 1 



1859 — one. 



December 29, 1879 — one seen by H. W. Henshaw. 



1880 (winter) — one. 



December 23, 1882 — specimen in U. S. Nat. Mus. 



March 17, 1888 — Sandy Spring, Maryland; specimen. 2 



March 30, 1888 — one seen by Chas. W. Richmond. 



January 1, 1895 — one seen on Potomac flats by E. A. Preble. — 

 Arthur H. Howell, Washington, D. C. 



Occurrence of Goshawks (Astur a. atricapillus) and Saw-whet 

 Owl {Cryptoglaux acadica) in the Vicinity of Washington, D. C. — 



It is interesting to note that the Goshawk in the extended winter migra- 

 tions of 1916 and 1917 reached the vicinity of Washington, D. C. Mr. 

 T. A. Davis secured a fine adult at the Bureau of Animal Industry farm 

 near Beltsville, Maryland, December 20, 1917. It was captured in a trap 

 set beside a large rooster it had killed. 



Mr. Davis states that he shot two others of this species at the same 

 locality September 1 and 2, 1916. The only previous record in this vicinity 

 was of an adult female killed at Sandy Spring, Maryland, December 27, 

 1887. 



A female Saw-whet Owl (Cryptoglaux acadica) taken in a grove of small 

 pines at Sandy Spring, Maryland, November 30, 1916, was one of the north- 

 ern species which drifted south in the autumn of 1916. — A. K. Fisher, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Large Flight of Great Horned Owls and Goshawks at Hadlyme, 

 Connecticut. — Under date of December 29, Mr. Edward H. Forbush 

 of Massachusetts wrote me that early in November, he had learned from 

 Canada that probably because of the great dearth of rabbits in the north 

 a great flight of Horned Owls and Goshawks was coming south. 



i Cf. Cooke, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXI, 1908, p. 116. 



■ Fisher, Hawks and Owls of the U. S., Bull. 3, Div. Orn. & Mamm., 1893. p. 91. 



