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seen mourning doves in and about Wrangell on several occasions. Mr. 

 Allen Hasselborg, of Juneau, once informed me of seeing a dove near 

 that city, in November, 1911. Straggling individuals have been re- 

 corded from Metlakatla, British Columbia (Kermode, 1904, p. 28), 

 from Sitka, September 14 (Willett, 1914, p. 81), and from Hydaburg, 

 Prince of Wales Island, September 1 (Willett, 1917, p. 22). 



The bird I took was flushed from tall marsh grass, at a point that 

 was regularly covered by the tides. In many places on the marsh this 

 grass was beaten down by rain or wind, and it was from one of these 

 flattened patches that the dove was flushed. 



If southeastern Alaska is an unusual point of occurrence for the 

 species, at any rate this individual reached the place without suffering 

 any undue hardships, for it was excessively fat. The crop contents of 

 this bird were as follows : percentage of animal matter, 1 ; of vege- 

 table, 99 ; of gravel, etc., a trace. Contents of crop : 16 Oribatid mites 

 and 2 young Polygyra, sp., 1 per cent ; 9 Carex, sp., 4 per cent ; 388 

 Alsine, sp., 20 per cent ; 221 Impatiens, sp., 75 per cent. 



The Sergief Island specimen, compared with examples of Zenai- 

 dura macroura marginella from California, is darker colored through- 

 out, with richer brown coloration on scapulars, and with larger black 

 spots upon the latter. It is not marginella. It bears closer resem- 

 blance to the eastern form, Zenmdura macroura carolinensis, and for 

 the present may remain under that name. There is not enough mate- 

 rial available to demonstrate whether the birds that occasionally reach 

 southeastern Alaska really are examples of the eastern race, extending 

 northwestward into northern British Columbia and sometimes to the 

 coast, or northern strays of th% coastal subspecies, Z. m. caurina, de- 

 scribed by Ridgway (1916, p. 348) from Oregon. 



Circus hudsonius (Linnaeus). Marsh Hawk 

 First noted at Sergief Island on September 3, when two brown 

 immatures appeared, beating over the marsh. A number more were 

 seen during the next few days. 



Accipiter velox (Wilson) . Sharp-shinned Hawk 

 Not seen until the close of the nesting season. First noted at Flood 

 Glacier, August 3, next on August 6, and thereafter almost daily. At 

 Great Glacier, on August 11, a Steller jay was shot and wounded, and, 

 being retrieved, screamed loudly. Almost instantly a sharp-shinned 

 hawk appeared, evidently drawn by the cries of distress, and lit in a 

 tree as near by as he dared to come. 



