Birds "within Ten Miles of Poir e 
deMonts, Can, Coxaeau&Merria," 
67. Astur atricapillus. Goshawk. — Not rare. 
BuiiN.O.O, 7 t Oot, 1882, p,237 
Breeding Dates of Birds in Kings 
County, N . S. atson D. Bishop. 
American Goshawk (Astur atricappiUus) . 
O.&O. Kill. Mar. 1888 p.4o 
The Goshawk 
“irSr, in the act of canning away a good-sized Plymouth 
Rock rooster. On November 3, a boy shot one near the Rifle R “ g *> 
which had just put itself on the outside of a Ruffed Grouse. Mn 
White noticed two large ones, and shot them, near em ro , 
county; one was in the act of devouring a grouse. The taxidermist got. some 
more to mount, all in the finest blue plumage, save one which I saw m the 
market which was in the immature plumage. Mr. E . Beaupre of Kingston 
writes me, that he never saw so many Goshawks together as this yean 
There were regular flights of them passing over the city. He saw the 
almost every day in October, but during the first week in November they 
weTmost abundant. He saw seven flying at one time. One he ap- 
proached quite close while on a stump tearing a Hairy Woodpecker 
Another tried to make a meal of a wooden decoy duck. Many were brought 
to the local taxidermists. W* h 
Birds of Toronto, Canada, 
by James H. Fleming, 
Part II, Land 'Birds, 
Au!i, XXIV, Jan., 1907, p . 7 2 . 
123. Accipiter atricapillus. American Goshawk. — Regular fall mi- 
grant, October 2 to November 3; a few remain through the winter, leav- 
ing towards the end of March; earliest record August 24, 1899. Mature 
birds in full plumage were practically unknown till the great migration 
of 1896 when they became abundant, the young being almost entirely 
absent. The migration reached Toronto on October 26, and from then 
till December 20, very many birds were taken. I examined thirty-five 
local specimens, all in full plumage, and this was not by any means all 
that were taken. A few adults were noted the three following years, 
but none have been reported since December, 1899; the number of young 
birds since then has been normal. 
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