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have referred to single birds or pairs. It is with much pleasure that I can 
now call attention to a flock of some fifty, observed in southern 
Missouri. I am not only greatly indebted to Mr. Chas. U. Holden, Jr., 
for this interesting information, but for the present of a beautiful pair 
which he sent me in the flesh, he having shot them as they flew rapidly 
overhead. Mr, Holden was, at the time, hunting Quail in Altie, Oregon 
Co., Missouri. The residents of this hamlet had not seen any Pigeons 
there before in some years. 
Simon Pokagon, Chief of the remaining Pottawattamie tribe, and prob- 
ably the best posted man on the Wild Pigeon in Michigan, writes me 
under date of Oct. 16, 1896: “I am creditably informed that there was a 
small nesting of Pigeons last spring not far from the headwaters of the 
Au Sable River in Michigan.” Mr. Chase S. Osborn, State Game and 
Fish Warden of Michigan, under date, Sault Ste. Marie, March 2, 1897, 
writes : “ Passenger Pigeons are now very rare indeed in Michigan, but some 
have been seen in the eastern parts of Chippewa County, in the Upper 
Peninsula, every year. As many as adozen or more were seen in this 
section in one flock last year, and I have reason to believe that they breed 
here in a small way. One came into this city last summer and attracted 
a great deal of attention by flying and circling through the air with the 
tame Pigeons. I have a billin the legislature of Michigan closing the 
season for killing Wild Pigeons for ten years.” —RUTHVEN DEANE, 
Chicago, Lil. 
Aquila chrysaétos in Central Minnesota.— It affords me great pleasure 
to record the capture of this noble bird in this State. 
On March 19, 1897,a hunter brought me a beautiful perfectly adult 
female shot twelve miles east of here. It was quite fat, evidently getting 
enough to live on during the long winter and deep snow. The stomach 
contained several ounces of the remains of a common white rabbit. The 
following are the measurements. Length, 37.00; extent, 86.00; wing, 
33.00; tail, 14.50; tarsus and middle toe, 9.00. Weight, 12 lbs. 9 oz.— 
ALBERT LANO, A7zthin, Minn. s 
Breeding of the Goshawk in Pennsylvania. —In Dr. Warren’s Report 
of the Birds of Pennsylvania (1890) he records the Goshawk (Acczpzter 
atricapillus) as a breeder in the State, mainly on the authority of Mr. 
Otto Behr of Lopez, Sullivan County. Thanks to the same gentleman, I 
am able to place on record some additional facts relative to the breeding 
of the species in Pennsylvania. 
On April 30, 1897, Mr. Behr and his brother secured a nest and two eggs 
of the Goshawk about five miles from Lopez, which they kindly presented 
to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Since that time 
they have discovered another nest with eggs near the same place. 
Mr. Behr states in addition: ‘‘We have found eight nests of the 
Goshawk in the last ten years, and all but one of these were built in 
