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a full-sized red squirrel which had been 

 hut slightly mutilated. It has been rec- 

 orded from Iron Mountain, U. P- Oct. 

 20, '92. S. E. White records the bird 

 from Kent County and Macinac Island. 

 We can safely say that this Hawk is 

 quite generally distributed over our 

 state both spring and fall; and it is 

 equally fair to assert that it is very 

 rarely or never seen within our bound- 

 aries in June, July and August. Col- 

 lectors of Michigan know nothing of its 

 eggs. 



Goldex Eagle, Aquill i c/irysaetos 

 (Linn). The earlier lists do not em- 

 brace this Eagle as a Michigan species. 



Sager. 1839 and Miles 1860 both omit 

 it in the Geological Report of the State. 

 D. D. Hughes records the capture of 

 two .specimens. Many records have 

 reached me which I feel unsafe in giv- 

 ing, for I am aware that the error is 

 not rarely made of mistaking the im- 

 mature (total brown) plumage of the 

 Bald Eagle for the Golden. This i~; so 

 common a mistake that I will mention 

 a mark of identity so that your readers 

 will not fall into the same error. In 

 the Golden Eagle the tarsus, which is 

 exposed in the Bald Eagle, is feathered 

 to the toe-. 



This bird though a rare straggler 

 from* the North, has been taken often 

 enough in various parts of the State, to 

 the extreme Southern border, to con- 

 vince us that it is quite well distributed 

 in its wanderings. Butler in his 'Birds 

 of Indiana' credits it as a "winter vis- 

 itor" in that state. 



One anf 1 """'"' _ives it the probabili y 

 of nesting in our Upper eninsula, 

 which seems reasonable when we learn 

 thatt ls Eagle is known to be a resi- 

 dent in aine', New Hampshire and 

 Veimont. None of these states extend 

 as far north as Michigan; however it 

 must be borne in mind that there are 

 many mountain sections in New Eng- 

 land, whereas the Eagles who prefer 



such a surface, arc denied territory of 

 this nature in the Peninsular State. 



As soon as records can be regularly 

 made in May and June it will be fair to 

 consider the Golden Eagle a. resident 

 but as long as the captures range from 

 November to March only we must doubt 

 the propriety of recording it as breed- 

 ing. 



Bald Eagle; White-headed Eagle, 

 Haliceelus leucocephalv.s. (Linn). This 

 majestic bird is comparitively well 

 known to all veteran collectors and 

 hunters, for, although it is now generally 

 a straggler, or, perhaps, we m ay say, 

 migrant, or transient in Michigan. south 

 of the 43d parallel, still it is seen often 

 enough, more particularly in the 

 autumn, to be looked upon as a bird of 

 even our southern boundary. I have 

 heard so many stories about Eagle's 

 nests within a few miles of this city 

 that I do not feel like disputing the as- 

 sertions; still all of the reported nesting 

 sites which I have looked up have prov- 

 en to be deserted. There is no doubt 

 that the Bald-headed Eagle once reared 

 its young about the lakes of the interior 

 of the extreme southern part of the 

 state as it is now found breeding at the 

 north. Butler in his 'Birds of Indiana' 

 says that this Eagle is still locally dis- 

 tributed in that state, and reports that 

 it has been found nesting in six coun- 

 ties. 



Young were taken in Ingham County 

 Michigan and the birds raised to matur- 

 ity by Professor W. K. Kedzie of the 

 Agricultural College. At the north the 

 birds are well known and numerous in~ 

 stances of nesting are recorded. As an 

 illustration of the variation in the nest- 

 ing time of birds in different localities 

 the following notes are offei'ed: In 

 March, 1891 two full-grown young Bald 

 Eagles were shown me in confinement 

 on the Indian River, Florida. When 

 Ave consider the time required to hatch 

 the eggs and bring the nestlings to this 

 advanced stage, at least twelve to four- 



