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Accipiter velox (Wils.). 

 Sharp-shinned Hawk. 



Very rare summer resident in southern Labrador. 



Verrill said that one was seen "evidently nesting" near Salmon 

 River on July 3, 1861. Macoun says that Spreadborough saw only 

 one in northern Labrador and this on July 8, 1896. 



Accipiter cooperii (Bonap.). 



Cooper's Hawk; "Partridge Hawk" (Stearns). 



Rare summer resident in southern Labrador. 



Stearns is our only authority for this species. He says that he saw~ 

 the bird "several times"; and again: "I saw the tail of a Cooper's 

 Hawk in the possession of one of the natives, a few miles in the interior 

 up Esquimaux River. . . .He did not regard it as at all rare." 



Accipiter atricapillus (Wils.). 

 American Goshawk; "Partridge Hawk." 



Uncommon permanent resident. 



Packard states that this hawk is resident in Ungava, breeding near 

 Fort Chimo. A specimen was obtained in early December, 1882. 

 Coues obtained an immature bird from the natives. Low says that 

 a specimen was killed near Cambrian Lake, Koksoak River; also on 

 the lower Hamilton River, "not common." Spreadborough noted 

 one at Seal Lake, Ungava, on July 24, 1896; another a short distance 

 above Ungava Bay on August 23, 1896. He took a set of two eggs of" 

 this species at Great Whale River on June 18, 1896. 



Buteo borealis (Gmel.). 

 Red-tailed Hawk, 



Very rare summer visitor. 



Audubon in his journal under date of July 11, 1833, near Cape- 



