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SEA GULLS, CUCKOOS, ETC. 



At Ica.sl two heads ol' the Americjin Heriin<ji; Gull 

 were paid lor as Hawks under the act of 1885. The 

 one illustrated was ])resented to me by Prof. S. F. 

 Baird, and another of the same species, killed alonj^ 

 the Susquehanna river, was sent to my office for iden- 

 tification. The Gull received from Prof. Baird was 

 called a "AA'hite Hawk." Tlie head of the Yellow- 

 billed (Cuckoo (Fig. 3), was also sent to Prof. Baird 

 as the head of a "Small llawk" of some unknown but 

 detrimental species. The Whip-poor-will (Fig. 1), and 

 Xighthawk (Fig. 2), heads wei-e secured by the writer 

 from justices of the peace, and the heads of a female 

 Wild Turkey (Fig 1), and a eo-mmou domesticated hen 

 (Fig. 2), were sent to Prof. Baird as "Hawk heads." 



The Fish Hawk, fiom which Fig. 1 has been repro- 

 duced, was shot along the Brandy wine Creek. Tlie 

 man wlio oflered it for bounty explained how much 

 damage it had done to his chickens, and how, foa' sev- 

 eral days, it had lingered near his dwelling watching 

 for and killing chickens and ducks. On examination 

 this Fish Hav/k's stomach showed it contained only 

 the remains of fish. Tlie Cooper's Hawk, in downy 

 dress, (Fig. 2), came from Crawford county where, it 

 is claimed, the eggs of this and other species of Hawks 

 and Owls were collected and hatched out under hens 

 or with incubators. 



The illustrations of the adults, male and female, 

 Afarsh Hawks, are those of a beneficial species which 

 wore killed in considerable numbers by scalp hunters. 

 The heads of the Cooper's Hawks (adult and young or 

 immature) show the species in different plumage. 

 This Hawk i.- one of the worst feathered pests the 

 ]t(iullry laiser has to contend with. 



