Accipiter atricapillus and Aix sponsa. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1897. rowing slowly nearer until we got within 100 yards. The Wood Sept.22. Duck showed no alarm at our approach and doubtless would have (no. 3). permitted us to get within gun range but the Hawk, evidently losing hope, did not return to his usual perch but came slowly towards us and was passing within thirty yards or less when I shot him, dropping him on the bank. To my surprise he proved to be a young male Goshawk, a bird of the year, apparently, in the spotted plumage. It is true that once or twice I had suspected for a moment that he might be a Goshawk for when flying his wings looked rather too broad for even those of even a large female Cooper's but nevertheless I should have certainly referred him to that species without much hesitation had not the gun settled the question the other way. I am now confident that I saw a young Goshawk (perhaps the same bird) on the Megalloway, Sept.15th. One thing that suggested the suspicion that the bird killed this evening was a Goshawk, when he first came in sight was the fact that he gave such vigorous chase to a flying Duck. I doubt if a Cooper's Hawk would ever attempt anything of the kind. Evidently the Goshawk is a terrible fellow. He would certainly have overtaken the Duck had she not taken to the water, although he did not gain on her nearly so rapidly as a Duck Hawk would have done under similar conditions.