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bound eagles and hawks, some people claiming 

 that ice could not temporarily disable these birds. I 

 have never seen an ice-bound eagle, but my uncle, 

 William H. Beard, painter of animals, once 

 brought home a large red-tailed hawk which he 

 found after a freezing rain storm so coated with 

 ice as to be unable to fly, or, in fact, to move about 

 at all except by an awkward hop. I remember once 

 a storm which occurred in Cincinnati during the 

 spring migration of birds; very few of the birds 

 were killed but hundreds of them were beaten to 

 the ground and disabled so that all the small boys 

 were collecting them and had cages full of the 

 strange visitors, which were all scarlet tanagers. I 

 was not well enough posted on birds in those days 

 to identify the strangers, but I did know that the 

 birds beaten down by that storm were not the ones 

 common in that neighborhood. 

 In March, 1904, a wet 



SNOW STORM KILLED MILLIONS OF LAPLAND 

 LONG-SPURS, 



an account of which may be found in the Auk of 

 October, 1907. 



During an ice storm in Flushing, Long Island, 

 I saw a large flying squirrel limping painfully 

 across our front lawn. I started out to rescue it, 

 but it climbed up the trunk of a maple tree and 

 crept into a large hole in the trunk where the wood 

 had decayed; supposing that it would find comfort- 



