February, 1918 
119 
FOREST A ( N1) STREAM 
[Readers of Forest and Stream are invited to use these columns to express their opinions 
on various subjects, although their views may not coincide with those of the Editors .] 
"NEWT” STRIKES A TENDER CHORD 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
Am attaching my check to renew my 
subscription for the coming two years. My 
neglect in not sending this sooner borders 
on the criminal. Suppose you had taken 
my name off the honor roll and I had 
missed one of Newt’s stories? I wouldn’t 
miss one of his yarns for the full subscrip¬ 
tion price. His “Going Light” story in the 
November issue struck a tender chord 
somewhere in my being for I had just re¬ 
turned from Canada where I had been 
hunting Moose, and the day I travelled 
light, instead of such a repast as parched 
corn and tea, all I found in my grub sack 
was a hunk of bread and a raw onion. 
I suppose you didn’t mean to do it, but 
I couldn’t help feeling a little resentful 
toward you for sending your November is¬ 
sue so as to reach Hillsboro the day I re¬ 
turned from an unsuccessful three weeks’ 
hunt in Quebec after Moose. It is a 
beautiful cover you have on this issue, 
but it seemed to me at the time a little 
like rubbing it in. If I can find time I 
will write you some of my experiences on 
this trip, or is it only the successful hunt¬ 
ing stories you want? 
With best wishes for continued success, 
A. R. Tribbe, Mass. 
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LOOK OUT FOR THE GOSHAWK 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
In many localities, the past shooting sea¬ 
son has been marked by a great scarcity of 
ruffed grouse—the partridge of the north, 
and the pheasant of the southern highlands. 
Such reports come from widely separated 
localities, for example, from Connecticut, 
Northern New York, portions of the Adi- 
rondacks, Michigan and Wisconsin. Vari¬ 
ous causes are assigned for the small num¬ 
bers of grouse found, but none of them 
seem to be founded on any general obser¬ 
vations. 
On the other hand, it is declared by some 
ornithologists that last winter there was 
an unusual flight of goshawks into the 
Northern United States, a species known to 
be extraordinarily destructive to game 
birds as well as to poultry. It had been 
predicted that a flight of goshawks would 
occur this autumn—and even that it has 
already begun—and if this is true the 
grouse will be in still greater danger. Many 
men believe that there will be few grouse 
next spring. 
I regard it as the duty of each sports¬ 
man to report any observations that he may 
make on the occurrence of this predatory 
bird, for before attempting to bring about 
any legislation in its behalf, we ought to 
have some precise knowledge on the pres¬ 
ent status of the grouse and the dangers 
to which it is subjected. I, therefore, offer 
the note below which bears on this subject: 
On the Saturday before Thanksgiving, 
while going through a piece of woods in 
Connecticut, I came on a pile of the feath¬ 
ers of a barred owl, but no remains what¬ 
ever of the bird’s body. It had apparently 
been plucked there and then removed. I 
observed to my companion that this owl 
had evidently been killed either by a 
goshawk or by a great horned owl. The 
following day a neighbor came running to 
my house and asked me to get my gun and 
come out and shoot a hawk that had just 
killed a chicken. I saw the hawk in a 
tree, but before I came within gunshot it 
flew, and I saw that it was a goshawk. I 
followed it for some distance, but did not 
succeed in getting a shot. However, dur¬ 
ing the following week it attacked the 
chickens of another neighbor and the man, 
happening to be in the house, seized his 
gun and killed it. I saw the bird December 
2, and it was a splendid full plumaged 
female goshawk. 
It is scarcely necessary to advise every 
sportsman to kill the goshawk wherever it 
is found. In my opinion men should make 
a practice of carrying their guns and two 
or three shells with them whenever they 
walk abroad over the fields or through the 
woods. The killing of a few goshawks 
may save a multitude of our grouse. 
Since not everyone knows the goshawk, 
I may say that it is a large dark colored, 
long tailed hawk, which flies with rather 
rapid wing beats, and commonly does not 
soar like the red tail and red shouldered 
hawks. The adult is slaty blue above, with 
the top of the head black and with three 
or four dark bands across the slate blue 
tail. The breast is gray with dark mark¬ 
ings ; feet bright yellow. The young birds 
are streaked brownish and white, but may 
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