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eleven stomachs previously noted, are mentioned by name in 

 the order as appended:* 



Mous»\, i;ccky Mountain ("liipmunk. 



Chipmunlc, Rabbit, 



Red Squirrel, Cotton Rat, 



Gray Squirrel, Cal. Ground Squirrel. 



BUT FEW INSECTS. 

 The amount of insect-food consumed by this species, if these 

 13:i examinations made of hawks captured durin? all seasons 

 of the year in" different sections of the United States, are to 

 be taken as a safe criterion, must be very insignificant. 

 Scrutinizing the tables, we see that on September 18, 188b. a 

 Cooper's Hawk, at River Dale, New Jersey, departed this life 

 and left in his stomach a single badly crushed grasshopper. 

 The natural presumption is that this particular Cooper's 

 Hawk became bewildered while in the land of "skeeters and 

 sand." otherwise he never would have condescended to takt- 

 such humble quarry. Another example, taken May 20, 1877, in 

 the township of East Goshen, Chester county, Pennsylvania, an 

 Did male Cooper's Hawk, was killed near the edge of a woods 

 by a swamp, where he often watched for Red-winged Black- 

 birds and Quail; his stomach, the records show, contained 

 mice (perhaps arvicola) and beetles. 



THE GOSHAWK. 



Goshawk (Accipiter atricapillus) : "Of 28 stomachs exam- 

 ined, 9 contained poultry or game birds; 2, other birds; 10. 

 mammals; .", insects; 'l, centipede; and 8 were empty." Ot 

 these 20 stomachs which contained food materials, 11 had re- 

 mains of poultry (5 poultry only) Ruffed Grouse and quail or 

 other birds; 7 contained only mammals as follows, 2, rabbit; 

 1, mouse and weasel; 1, Gray Squirrel; 1, squirrel, species not 

 given; 2, red squirrels. One stomach showed remains of a 

 Kuffed Grouse and two red squirrels; another a domestic fowl 

 (not named), and with the remains of this fowl were 30 sphinx 

 larvae and 3 centipedes; a Ruffed Grouse and a Gray Squirrel 

 had satisfied the necessities of a third Goshawk: anoiher of 

 Ihese fierce hawks had eaten a rabbit and a few locusts, and In 

 the stomach of a Goshawk taken April 12. 1886, at Elmira. N'w 

 York, some mice and beetles were disclosed by diss.?ction. 



