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Mearns on Birds at Fort Klamath. 
57. Accipiter fuscus ( Gmelin ). Sharp-shinned Hawk. — No. 45, 
9 ad., 1875. 
58. Accipiter cooperi ( Bonaparte ). Cooper’s Hawk. — Septem- 
ber 2, 1874 ( McElderry ). 
59. Astur atricapillus (Wilson). Goshawk.- — Mr. Henry W. 
Henshaw secured a fine specimen about the last of August, 1878, about 
fourteen miles south of Fort Klamath. 
60. Falco mexicanus polyagrus, Cassin . Prairie Falcon. — 
Hospital list ( McElderry ). 
61. Falco sparverius ( Linne ). Sparrow Hawk. No. 57, 9 ad., 
May 9, 1878 ; No. 85, £ juv. Tail with a broad terminal band of pale 
rufous ; subterminal portion and two spots on middle of inner left rectrix, 
black ; residue of tail, dark rufous. The rufous of back is crossed by a 
few broad bars of black, each primary broadly tipped with very pale 
rufous or buff. This specimen was found dead upon the floor of a barn, 
in an emaciated condition, August, 1875 [McElderry). Occasionally ob- 
served ( Wittich). 
62. Buteo swainsoni, Bonaparte. Swainson’s Hawk. — No. 46, 
9 ad., 1875. 
63. Pandion haliaetus carolinensis ( Gmelin ). American Os- 
prey; Fish-Hawk. — A summer resident; numerous on the rivers and 
about the Klamath lakes (Wittich). Breeds ( Henshaw). 
64. Haliaetus leucocephalus (Linne). White-headed Eagle. — 
Common along the rivers, and especially on Upper Klamath Lake. 
Breeds (Wittich). Dr. J. S. Newberry gives the following : * It “ is very 
common at the cascades of the Columbia and at the falls of the Willa- 
mette, and still more abundant about the chain of lakes which cover so 
large a surface in the Klamath Basin. On the shores of Upper Klamath 
Lake, quite to my regret, a large number of these noble birds were shot 
by our party. So long, century after century, parent and offspring, had 
they reigned there in undisputed supremacy, with no enemy more formida- 
ble than the arrow-armed Indian, of whose missiles they had learned the 
range, that they exhibited little of the shyness so characteristic of the 
tribe to which they belong. On some point of rock, or dwarfed pine, pro- 
jecting from the wall of trap which, to the height of 1,000 feet, borders 
the eastern shore of the lake, beyond bowshot, the Bald Eagles sat, and 
viewed our approach with calm indifference, permitting themselves to be 
brought within easy range of the rifles, and too many of them falling a 
sacrifice to man’s passion for doing what he can, simply because he can.” 
65. Rhinogryphus aura (Linne). Turkey Buzzard. — Hospital 
list ( McElderry ). 
66. Zensedura carolinensis (Linne). Mourning Dove. — May 
2, 1875 (McElderry). 
* Pacific Railroad Report, Yol. VI, Pt. IY, p. 74, 1857. 
