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contained nearly the whole of a ground dove. Mr. Thomas Mc- 

 Ilraith mentions seeing one of these falcons dive into a flock 

 of blackbirds on one of the marshes of Ontario, and saya: "I 

 once saw him stoop' on a flock as they hurried toward the 

 marsh for shelter. How closely they had huddled together. 

 as if seeking mutual ;notection, but he went right through 

 the flock arid came out on the other side with one in each 

 fist." (Birds of Ontario, 1SS6, p. 149.) 



Occasionally the Pigeon Hawk is quite destructive 

 to youug chickens, as the following from the pen of 

 the late Dr. AVilliam Wood will show: 



"In May, 1860, a gentleman who resides some five miles dis- 

 tant, informed me that a small hawk came almost every 

 day and carried off a chicken for him. * * * -p^e next 

 day the same little hawk leturned and was shot, and is now 

 in my collection, a beautiful representative of the Pigeon 

 Hawk." (Am. Nat.. Vol. VII, p. 342.) 



