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three or four Goshawks during the fall and winter, but this season 

 fourteen specimens had already been sent in, all but one being in 

 the adult plumage. 



Mr. Alexander Calder, taxidermist, Winnipeg, Man., informs 

 me in a letter dated Jan. 18, 1907, that ten Goshawks had been 

 received, the first record being Sept. 8, 1906. The stomachs of 

 those examined contained portions of rabbits and squirrels. 



Mr. George E. Atkinson, taxidermist, Portage la Prairie, Man., 

 writes under date of Feb. 11, 1907, that Goshawks had been more 

 abundant this season in Manitoba than for the past nine years. 



NOTES CONCERNING CERTAIN BIRDS OF LONG 

 ISLAND, NEW YORK. 



BY WILLIAM C. BRAISLIN, M. D. 



The species here referred to have recently been met with as 

 birds of Long Island. Most are recorded because of their rarity. 

 One, the Hermit Thrush, is herewith for the first time definitely 

 announced as a breeding species on Long Island. The evidence 

 is based on the capture of a single specimen of an immature bird 

 just out of the nest, with but little power of flight, at Lake Ronkon- 

 koma. Lake Ronkonkoma lies nearly at the geographical center 

 of Long Island, several miles from the sea. The temperature 

 there is, however, tempered by its influence, both in summer and 

 winter, as the thermometer records, carefully made for a series of 

 years by a medical friend who lives near there, show. The Hermit 

 Thrush is said to breed regularly on Cape Cod. The present record 

 brings its coastal nesting range somewhat further south. Further 

 investigation will probably show that the Hermit Thrush is, though 

 rare, a regular summer resident on Long Island. 



Alle alle. Little Auk or Dovekie. — Another specimen 

 (several have been previously recorded by me in 'The Auk') was 

 recently sent from Montauk by Mr. Baker. It was secured on 



