Wellsley Hills, Mass 
Go shawl; 
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A farmer here showed, me this morning a Goshawk which he shot 
some ten days ago, and suspects that another was after his poultry 
this morning. He shot at him, but missedo According to his story 
this second one beat the bushes in which the chickens had taken 
shelter, right under his eyes. I say "according to his story' 1 , but 
I don it mean to imply any shade of suspicion. I know him to be as 
honest as the day, and I know also that this is the disposition of 
the Goshawk. 
Bradford Torrey (letter December 13, 1896.) 
On August 15, 1900, a very large young Goshawk (Accifiiter atricap- 
tllus), in brilliantly mottled plumage, flew close past me on the heavy- 
forest-bordered road low down on the eastern side of Iloosac Mountain, 
just w ithin the bou ndaries of Berkshire County . This is perhaps the 
first summer record for the county. On August 21 of the same year, I 
saw two Duck Hawks (Falco peregrinus anatum ) circling about over the 
Cheshire reservoir, in the town of Lanesboro. 
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' Auk, XIX, July, 1902, 
