142 Swales & Taverner, Birds of Southeastern Michigan. [April 



tells us he took near the River Rouge. He says there were five 

 in the flock and he got them all. It was in the spring, about 1898. 

 He also reports mounting a Turnstone for the Mr. Conely before 

 mentioned under the head of Phalarope. Mr. Taverner took one 

 at Point Pelee September 15, 1905. This appears to exhaust 

 the records for this section. 



Accipiter atricapillus. American Goshawk. — Prior to 1906 

 we have but two records for the Goshawk in the neighborhood 

 of Detroit, namely, Wayne Co., Dec. 24, 1898, and Oakland 

 Co., Oct. 30, 1905. This fall, however, we have had a flight 

 worthy of more than passing notice. October 15 we flushed a 

 large Accipiter that we were confident was of this species at Point 

 Pelee, Ont., but did not receive confirmatory evidence of the 

 correctness of our identification until October 21, when we received 

 an adult male from the same locality, followed by an adult and a 

 juvenile October 23. On November 8 we received four birds, 

 and November 14 three, all from the Point. The first local speci- 

 men was in the taxidermist's hands about October 29, and single 

 birds were received November 10, December 11, 24, 30, and 

 January 18. Several were reported from Pelee December 1 and 

 January 18. Of all these but two were juveniles, one as above 

 mentioned and the first of the local birds. Of the remainder, 

 two of the Pelee and one of the others had a trace of the dark 

 stripings of the immature plumage, and were, we should judge, 

 birds of the second year. From these specimens it was easy to 

 pick out four distinct plumages, which seems to indicate that the 

 species does not attain its full plumage until the third year. The 

 winter of 1896, saw a flight of Goshawks at Toronto when the same 

 conditions as to the scarcity of young birds prevailed (see Auk, 

 XXIV, p. 72), and again this year Mr. Fleming reports another 

 one like it. Strange to relate, however, in the intermediate terri- 

 tory at London, Mr. Saunders has seen no Goshawks at all this 

 fall. Correspondence has shown that the flight has not penetrated 

 into the interior of the State, where the only records that we hear 

 of have been from Midland and Clare Counties, where, however, 

 the species seems to be a more or less common visitor. The flight 

 also seems not to have crossed Lake Erie, as Dr. Lynds Jones 

 spent some time at Cedar Point, directly opposite Point Pelee, on 



