85

Concord, Mass.
1916.
Aug. 30
to Nov.4

Cooper's [Cooper's Hawk] & Sharp-shin Hawks [Sharp-shinned Hawk].

either species bred anywhere in our neighborhood last
spring, nor was the former bird once noted there
this autumn. But Sharp-shins [Sharp-shinned Hawk], occurring singly and
presumably coming from regions lying further north,
were observed on September 1 [September 1, 1916], 14 [September 14, 1916], 19 [September 19, 1916], 30 [September 30, 1916] and October 1 [October 1, 1916]
while two such birds were seen on September 20 [September 20, 1916].

Goshawk.

  Early in the forenoon of September 7 [September 7, 1916], H.W. Henshaw [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw]
and I were rowing down Concord River from the Manse
to Ball's Hill when a very large and conspicuously long-
tailed Hawk appeared, at first flying straight and
swiftly towards us, two or three hundred feet above
a wide expanse of grassy meadow land, next soaring
on set wings to a somewhat greater height over the
little river-lagoon known as "Hunt's Pond". Thus
viewed in clear sunlight, and no more than 150 
yards distant from where our boat floated in mid