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of the presence of the quail, robin, oriole, swift, bluebird, 

 downy woodpecker, flicker, cow-bird, mocking-bird, cat-bird, 

 oven-bird, hermit-thrush, mourning-dove, chickadee, snow- 

 birds, and various wrens, warblers, buntings, and sparrows, 

 including the English variety of the latter. No bird with such 

 a record deserves protection. 



COOPER'S HAWK may be considered a larger type of the 

 sharp-shinned species. It measures from fourteen to twenty 

 inches in length, is found 

 throughout North Amer- 

 ica as far north as the 

 British Provinces, mi- 

 grates south to spend the 

 winter, and is an invet- 

 erate enemy to poultry, 

 game and other birds. 

 Of ninety-four food- 

 containing stomachs ex- 

 amined by Dr. Fisher 

 poultry or game-birds 

 were found in thirty-four 

 and other birds in fifty- 

 two stomachs. Small 

 mammals, including two 

 mice, one cotton-rat, 

 three chipmunks, one 

 red squirrel, one gray 

 squirrel, one ground- 

 squirrel, and one rabbit, 

 had been eaten by eleven of the hawks. Two others had taken 

 insects, one a frog, and three had eaten lizards. The game- 

 birds destroyed included pigeons, quail, and ruffed grouse, and 

 on the list of other birds one finds the chewink, purple grackle, 

 meadow-lark, flicker, nuthatch, hermit -thrush, dove, robin, 

 snow-bird, mourning-dove, and various warblers and sparrows. 



COOPER'S HAWK. 



(After Biological Survey.) 



