BIRD RECORDS DURING THE PAST WINTER 
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1. Goshawk. Astur a . atricapillus. One of the most note- 
worthy occurrences in the winter bird life was the flight of Gos- 
hawks. Nearly all of the records mentioned here were obtained 
through Mr. A. J. Anderson, taxidermist, who receives speci- 
mens from a considerable radius of territory. In all of his pre- 
vious experience, covering nearly twenty years, Mr. Anderson 
received only two specimens of the Goshawk, both in 1907, and 
one from Woodbury county, the other from an unknown source. 
Following are the data of the specimens reported to me by 
Mr. Anderson for the winter of 1916-1917 : 
(a) A male which had been shot by a farmer near Badger 
Lake (Monona county), on October 4, because it had been “rob- 
bing the chicken yard” for some time. Now in the Anderson 
collection. 
(b) October 8. Field record. A. J. Anderson saw an adult 
about a mile above the Stony Point on the Big Sioux. 
(c) October 15. A female, locality unknown, but believed to 
have come from Ponco, Nebraska. Mounted for a customer. 
(d) October 16. Field record. Mr. Anderson saw a Gos- 
hawk on this date near the mouth of the Big Sioux river, on the 
Iowa side. 
(e) October 27. A male killed near Conway’s at Riverside 
Park, Woodbury county. Mounted and retained in the Ander- 
son collection. 
(f) October 29. A male from Le Mars, Plymouth county. 
Length 21.75 inches. This seems to be an immature bird, show- 
ing two or three cordate markings on the thighs. There is also 
some rufous color in the dorsal plumage. Mounted for 0. W. 
Remer, of Le Mars. 
(g) November 17. An immature specimen sent to Mr. An- 
derson from Freeborn, Minnesota. Length 22 inches. Sex not 
distinguishable. Much brown in dorsal plumage. Tarsi dull 
yellow-green, yellow predominating. Iris is vermillion, but when 
the eyeball is fully distended the apparent shade is more nearly 
a carmine. 
All five of the collected specimens have a fairly distinct broad 
white line over the eye, and a more or less irregular white patch 
on the nape. The general shade of color on the back was about 
the same in all adults, viz., plumbeus, tending to bluish, without 
any blackish. Each specimen was carefully compared with the 
