Notes on certain birds of Long Island, 
New York. 
By William C. Braislin, M.D . 
Accipiter atricapillus. American Goshawk. — Although I have 
seen quite a number of specimens of this species from Long Island, 
and have recorded one or more of these, recent occurrences are re- 
garded as sufficiently interesting to record. Captain James G. 
Scott sent me an almost perfectly adult female specimen, which was 
killed at Montauk, November 14, 1906. Ank, 24, Apr. ,1907,p,(S7-/?S 
