The Goshawks 



Nesting. — Nest: High in trees, usually coniferous; of sticks, twigs and grass, 

 lined with bark-strips and grass. Eggs: 2 to 5; white or bluish white, sometimes 

 faintly marked with pale brown. Ay. size 58.9 x 45.5 (2.32 x 1.79). Season: 

 April 10— Ma)' 20; one brood. 



Range of .4. g. striatulus. — Pacific Coast region of America, breeding from Cook 

 Inlet, Alaska, south to southern Sierras; wintering south to California and east to 

 Colorado. 



Distribution in California. — Rare summer resident in the Boreal zone from 

 Mt. Shasta and the Warners south along the Sierra Nevada to about Latitude 36 30'. 

 Somewhat more common in winter and at lower levels, especially northerly. Recorded 

 south to San Diego (Lower Otay Reservoir, Stephens). 



Authorities. — Newberry (Astur atricapillus), Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., vol. vi., 

 1857, p. 74 (San Francisco); Ray, Auk, vol. xx., 1903, p. 138 (Pyramid Peak, June and 

 July) ; Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avifauna, no. 11, 1915, p. 64 (occurrence in Calif.). 



Taken in Fresno County 



THE GORGE OF DESPAIR 

 THE GOSHAWK COURTS THE WILDEST SETTING 



Photo by the A uthor 



A MILD experience of the feelings of a chicken befell my partner 

 while we were camped near a trail in the northern Cascades. It was late 

 in June and the ornithologist was not aware that a certain stretch of woods 

 which the trail cleft belonged to a highly virtuous pair of Goshawks, until 



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