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Circus hudsonius (Linnaeus). Marsh Hawk. 
Seen twice on meadows at the head of Port Nell Juan; one 
was shot there August 19 by Heller (no. 1141), who also records 
it as abundant on meadows at Valdez Narrows late in Sep- 
tember; one (no. 1142) was secured there on the 18th. Both 
specimens are immature females (that is, full grown, in juvenal 
plumage), and are very deeply colored, the dark areas being 
sooty sepia, and the light ones deep tawny. The freshness of 
the plumage probably accounts largely for this intensity of 
coloration, as compared with faded winter birds from the United 
States. 
Accipiter velox (Wilson). Sharp-shinned Hawk. 
Four specimens obtained at the head of Port Nell Juan 
August 18 and 19 (nos. 1146, 1144, 1148, 1147). Dixon saw one 
repeatedly pursuing a magpie, but the latter escaped each time 
by taking to cover in the brush. A Steller jay was also the 
object of unsuccessful attack. At Drier Bay, Knight Island, 
Heller saw sharp-shinned hawks at different times, alternately, 
in pursuit of, or being chased by, northwestern crows. Miss 
Alexander shot one (no. 1145) at Wortman’s on the Eagle Gov- 
ernment Trail, near Valdez, September 3. 
Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis (Gmelin). 
Rough-legged Hawk. 
Tleller secured a full-grown, juvenal male (no. 1111) at 2000 
feet altitude on Chenega Island, August 31. Its plumage is 
intermediate between the lightest and darkest ‘‘phases’’: base 
of tail, back and lower parts strongly marked with tawny; pos- 
terior lower parts heavily blotched with sooty sepia; head buffy 
white, streaked with sooty sepia. The stomach of this bird 
contained hair and bones of meadow-mice. 
Large hawks, of uncertain species, were seen at Zaikof and 
Hanning bays, Montague Island. 
