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This bird is very rare on the great lakes, e the individual in question, 
which was of the male sex, was of unusually large size. It weighed 
thirty-three pounds, and the expanded in measured in full one hun- 
dred and eight inches! The bill from the eye was sixteen inches in 
length, being of a dirty yellow or yellowish brown. The plumage was 
almost pure white, with the exception of the alula; primary coverts, and 
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at I have seen no mention of in the description of this species, that 
over each eye was a group of small feathers of a brownish black color, 
this species is Kait d as having at the season of reproduction. 
In Baird, —— and Lawrence's ** Birds of North America," this peli- 
can is mentioned as breeding ‘‘in the fur countries, generally selecting 
TAREA places in the neighborhood of water falls;" and as be 
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and Middle States ;" and as also inhabiting **throughout the Rocky Moun- 
tains and California." The same work gives the stretch of wings as 
seventy inches, and length of bil 13.50, while much smaller specimens are 
recorded. Mr. James Hobson, who mounted our specimen, and who is of 
much experience in this direction, having received several of this species 
from Florida and elsewhere, says he never before saw so large a pelican; 
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dence of over twenty years in the region of the great lakes, I had not 
previously met with the pelican, nor had I heard of more than three in- 
stances of its having been captured within their limits. 
The marsh at Sarnia is an inlet or overflow of the river St. Clair, near 
its head, and about one mile from the south shore of Lake Huron. The 
from the northward, from the direction of the lake. Onthe morning of 
the 14th it flew back to Lake Huron, but returned in the evening of the 
same day, remaining till shot on the following evening, as before stated. 
It was very active, wandering over the marsh all day, swimming about, or 
only rising for a short flight, and alighting again in the water. 
to say there were no fish found in its pouch; only a few small worms and 
insects. — HENRY GILLMAN, Detroit, Michigan. 
p or Hawks. — Do hawks migrate in pairs only, or do they 
te in flocks and separate into pairs as they arrive at their breeding 
ion In 1856 my attention wae called = genta a number of hawks 
that were diving, higt 
in the air (as they commonly do in the spring when pairing) and passing to 
the north-east. Not making any note of the occurrence I cannot give the 
exact number or date. It was early in the spring, and there must have 
