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have referred to single birds or pairs. It is with much pleasure that I can 

 now call attention to a flock of some fifty, observed in southern 

 Missouri. I am not only greatly indebted to Mr. Chas. U. Holden, Jr., 

 for this interesting information, but for the present of a beautiful pair 

 which he sent me in the flesh, he having shot them as they flew rapidly 

 overhead. Mr. Holden was, at the time, hunting Qiiail in Altie, Oregon 

 Co., Missouri. The residents of this hamlet had not seen any Pigeons 

 there before in some years. 



Simon Pokagon, Chief of the remaining Pottawattamie tribe, and prob- 

 ably the best posted man on the Wild Pigeon in Michigan, writes me 

 under date of Oct. i6, 1896 : " I am creditably informed that there was a 

 small nesting of Pigeons last spring not far from the headwaters of the 

 Au Sable River in Michigan. " Mr. Chase S. Osborn, State Game and 

 Fish Warden of Michigan, under date, Sault Ste. Marie, March 2, 1897, 

 writes : " Passenger Pigeons are now very rare indeed in Michigan, but some 

 have been seen in the eastern parts of Chippewa County, in the Upper 

 Peninsula, every year. As many as a dozen or more were seen in this 

 section in one flock last year, and I have reason to believe that thev breed 

 here in a small way. One came into this city last summer and attracted 

 a great deal of attention by flying and circling through the air with the 

 tame Pigeons. I have a bill in the legislature of Michigan closing the 

 season for killing Wild Pigeons for ten years." — Ruthven Deane, 

 Chicago, III. 



Aquila chrysaetos in Central Minnesota. — It aftbrds me great pleasure 

 to record the capture of this noble bird in this State. 



On March 19, 1897, a hunter brought me a beautiful perfectly adult 

 female shot twelve miles east of here. It was quite fat, evidently getting 

 enough to live on during the long winter and deep snow. The stomach 

 contained several ounces of the remains of a common ^^hite rabbit. The 

 following are the measurements. Length, 37.00; extent, 86.00 ; wing, 

 33.00; tail, 14.50; tarsus and middle toe, 9.00. Weight, 12 lbs. 9 oz. — 

 Albert Lano, Aitkin, Mtnn. 



Breeding of the Goshawk in Pennsylvania. — In Dr. Warren's Report 

 of the Birds of Pennsylvania (1S90) he records the Goshawk {^Accipiter 

 atricapillns) as a breeder in the State, mainly on the authority of Mr. 

 Otto Behr of Lopez, Sullivan County. Thanks to the same gentleman, I 

 am able to place on record some additional facts relative to the breeding 

 of the species in Pennsylvania. 



On April 30, 1897, Mr. Behr and his brother secured a nest and two eggs 

 of the Goshawk about five miles from Lopez, which they kindly presented 

 to the i\cademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Since that time 

 they have discovered another nest with eggs near the same place. 



Mr. Behr states in addition: "We have found eight nests of the 

 Goshawk in the last ten years, and all but one of these were built in 



