KITES, HAWKS, AND EAGLES: Family Ace ipitriidae [183] 



vations, both with and without eight-power binoculars, at a distance as close as 30 yards. 

 The bird was kept under observation for at least half an hour. 



Although I am opposed to publishing sight records under ordinary circumstances, I feel 

 justified in recording the occurrence of this bird, as I am thoroughly familiar with the species 

 in life from my boyhood experiences in California and have had opportunity to handle many 

 skins and mounted specimens of the White-tailed Kite. 



Under these circumstances, I do not hesitate to place on record the occurrence of this Kite 

 in Oregon. 



We have known Ben Hur Lampman for many years as a keen and 

 accurate observer and have no reason to doubt that he actually saw a 

 White-tailed Kite on Blue Lake. Jewett's thorough field knowledge of 

 western birds makes it impossible that he could have been mistaken in 

 his identification of so conspicuous a bird. On the basis of these inci- 

 dents, we are therefore admitting the species to the Oregon list, although 

 we are ordinarily opposed to such additions on the basis of sight records. 



Goshawk: 



Astur atricapillus (Wilson) 



DESCRIPTION. "Bare portion of leg in front shorter than middle toe; wing more 

 than 12. inches. Adults: under parts with whitish ground, uniformly covered with 

 finely penciled gray ^ig^ags, touched up with dark shaft streaks; upper parts dark bluish 

 gray, with black shaft streaks, and becoming black on head; tail bluish gray, more 

 or less tipped with white and crossed by about four dusky bands, sometimes obsolete 

 on the upper surface. Young: upper parts dull brown, head and neck streaked with 

 buffy salmon, and rest of upper parts spotted and edged with pale buffy and whitish; 

 under parts bright buffy, broadly streaked with dark brown. Male: Length 11.00, 

 wing 11.00-13.2.5, tail 9.50-10.50. Female: Length 2.4.50, wing 13.50-14.15, tail 

 1 1.50-11. 75." (Bailey) Nest: A bulky mass of twigs, placed well up in a tall tree, 

 usually lined with finer grass and vegetable fibers. Eggs: 2. to 5, pale bluish white. 

 DISTRIBUTION. General: Breeds in boreal zones from Alaska, Mackenzie, Manitoba, 

 Ontario, northern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to northern United States and 

 southward along Allegheny Mountains to Pennsylvania and Maryland and in west- 

 ern ranges to central California, Arizona, and New Mexico. In Oregon: Permanent 

 resident of Cascades and Blue Mountains. Apt to be found anywhere in State in fall 

 and winter. 



THE FIRST Oregon record of the striking Goshawk is that of Cassin (Baird, 

 Cassin, and Lawrence 1858) at The Dalles, March 8, 1854. Newberry 

 (1857) also found it, Mearns (1879) mentioned one taken by Henshaw 

 at Fort Klamath on August 31, 1878, and Brewster and Merrill recorded 

 a specimen from the same point, March n, 1887 (Merrill 1888). Wood- 

 cock (1901) listed it from Scio, Beaverton, and Corvallis, the first western 

 Oregon localities reported. 



Bendire (1892.) listed four nests found by him. One taken May 2.6, 

 1875, i n tne vicinity of Camp Harney contained two newly hatched 

 young and an egg already chipped. Two others, taken April 18, 1876, 

 and April 9, 1877, contained eggs, as did the fourth, taken April 17, 1881, 



