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be more wary, aud these will make a detour to one side or 
the other from where the men stand. The little and medium 
ones come right along in straight line, the fall of one when 
shot disturbing not a whit the fellow in line behind it. Ask- 
ing White how many he thought passed along on that day, 
he answered that he had not he slightest idea. It was a con- 
tinuous stream of birds without a moment’s cessation from 
daylrght to the time the sun went down. 
Muirhead also writes from the same locality: The idea is 
popular here (Cheesequake creek, South Amboy, N. J.) that 
the hawks fly in the wake of other species of migrating birds, 
which they overhaul and feed upon. We never have good 
hawk shooting unless all conditions are favorable—wind 
westerly and brisk. If there is little or no breeze the birds 
pass over high, most of them out of range. The reason given 
for seeing the hawks here when on their northern flight is 
explained in this wise: The wind must have been westerly 
for a day or two, and far enough inland to incline most of 
the birds in its area toward the ocean. When they come to 
this they resist the wind enough to keep them over the beach, 
and so string out along one after another until they come to 
Sandy Hcok; then seeing nothing but water ahead, they 
change their course, following the beach up Sperm City cove 
and Raritan bay, and then continue their flight overland 
again; that is, those that escape, for many are killed. 
“J. P.” has already intimated that the flight occurs inland 
as far as Montclair, N. J., and (Karl V. S.) Howland, in 
1873, says the hawks begin to pass through Montclair on 
their way north in the latter part of March. Since then he 
has shot specimens of the Red-tailed, Red-shouldered, Spar- 
row, Cooper’s, Sharp-shinned, Broad-winged, and American 
Osprey. Randolph H. Howland, in answer to a recent in- 
quiry from me, states that no large flights of the Broad- 
wings have been observed by him, although he has seen the 
bird in small groups, namely: a flock of 7 on Apr. 18, and 
5 on May 9, 1905; and 11 on May 13, 1906, At Hartford, 
Conn., Sage gives the average date of arrival as Apr. 10- 
