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six o'clock in the morning until noon. I was informed by several 

 collectors, who were out shooting at the time, that three flocks of 

 Broad-winged Hawks passed over them, and that they were able 

 to secure a number of the birds. I examined several and found 

 that the adult specimens were moulting about the head. 



No very large flight of hawks occurred in the fall of 1888, but 

 in 1889 on the 28th of September there was another great flight, 

 but, unfortunately, I did not see it, for on that day I was in 

 Hartford, Connecticut, where no flight occurred. Although I have 

 been in the northern part of the State of Connecticut repeatedly 

 in the autumn, I have never seen more than a few hawks at one 

 time in that section, and those were generally flying southward, 

 on a day when the wind blew from the north. 



Mr. Willard G. Van Name of New Haven has informed me 

 that the flight which took place on September 28 was made up of 

 almost all the species of hawks which are migrants in New 

 England, and many other different land birds, and also that the 

 hawks all flew in a westerly direction over the city of New Haven. 



On the days on which the above flights occurred, the conditions 

 of the weather were quite the same. In each case it was clear 

 and cool, with a strong northwest wind. 



On the 1 8th of September, iSgo, when a large flight of hawks 

 occurred, the day was warm and partly cloudy, but there was a 

 light breeze from the northwest, and there had been southerly 

 winds for a long period previous, which seemed to show that the 

 south winds had temporarily checked the migration of the hawks. 

 During this flight, the hawks flew higher than usual, but I 

 observed two immense flocks of Broad-winged Hawks {Biifco 

 hitissi7nns), and I saw several of them shot down, together with 

 Sparrow Hawks {Falco sparveriiis), Sharp-shinned Hawks {Accip- 

 iter velox), and Cooper's Hawks {Accipiter coopcri), all of which 

 were plentiful. 



In the fall of 1891, I was very anxious to obtain a number of 

 specimens of different species of the Falconidai, and I went out 

 from New Haven repeatedly with hopes of finding a flight in 

 progress, but I could only find the hawks flying on three days, 

 the 8th, 9th, and 14th of September. The first two days I secured 

 but a few, but on the 14th I killed over twenty, the greater part 



