DURING the hurricane of October 6, 1873, I was residing on the west shore of Biscayne Bay, South Florida. In the early part of the gale, and while it was approaching its height, I noticed overhead innumerable â man-of-war hawks.â They seemed to be â laying-toâ (to use a nautical phrase), with but little motion of their wings ; their heads were to wards the wind, but instead of moving backwards they seemed to drift off in a line calculated to take them directly away from the storm-centre.