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Hawks took possession for breeding purposes, of an apartment in a dove- 

 cote at my farm in Tatham in West Springfield, driving out a pair of 

 Doves that were there in possession and destroying their nest. Their 

 first egg was laid April 17, the second after an interval of two days, and 

 three others, each, after an interval of one day. Incubation commenced 

 after the fourth was laid. The male was at this time killed, but the 

 female remained devoted to her work and on the 27th of May three 

 Hawks were hatched, and the following day, another. One of the eggs 

 proved not to be fertile. Incubation lasted thirty-four days, a period 

 much longer than heretofore reported. During the whole of the time of 

 incubation and the rearing of the young, the mother Hawk did not inter- 

 fere with the wild birds that had adopted the territory in the vicinity of 

 the dove-cote for their home. 



A pair of Bluebirds nested in a bird-house within thirty feet, and 

 Robins, Phoebes, Vesper Sparrows and other kinds all remained undis- 

 turbed in the immediate neighborhood, and the pair of Doves that were 

 first made to give way for the Hawks, were permitted to rebuild in a 

 place adjacent to their first home. The young of the Hawks were all 

 successfully raised and are now well and happy in confinement. — Robert 

 O. Morris, Springfield, Mass. 



Xema sabinii and Chordeiles virginianus sennetti — Two Additions 

 to the Iowa Avifauna. — My collection of Iowa birds contains two imma- 

 ture specimens of Sabine's Gull, both of which were taken on the sandbar 

 immediately above Burlington, Iowa. No. 50, (S. U. I. No. 15981) (J, 

 was shot Oct. 15, 1891 ; No. 51, (S. U. I. No. 15982) $ , Oct. 12, 1894. 

 These I believe are the first records of this species for Iowa. The speci- 

 mens are deposited at the State University of Iowa at Iowa City. 



The Smithsonian Institution recently received a specimen of Sennett's 

 Night Hawk from Mr. C. F. Henning of Boone, Iowa, shot four miles 

 southeast of that place. This variety seems so far to have escaped Iowa 

 observers and it gives me pleasure to add it to our list. — P. Bartsch, 

 Washington, D. C. 



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