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September 27. Massachusetts — Wellesley, September 8 ; and Harvard. 

 September 28. New York — New York City, September 27. New 

 Jersey — Bloomfield, October 31. Pennsylvania — Erie, September 

 12; and Renovo, October 6. District of Columbia — Washington, 

 September 22. North Carolina — Raleigh, September 14. 



Early dates of fall arrival in the winter quarters are : Nicaragua — 

 Escondido River, September 30. Colombia — Santa Marta, October 

 32; and Rio Toche, October 23. Venezuela — Merida, October 29. 



Casual records. — The broad-winged hawk has not been reported on 

 many occasions outside of its normal range. The following records 

 must, however, be considered as casuals: Nova Scotia, one was seen 

 at Ingonish, Cape Breton Island, on August 29, 1905, and one was 

 taken at Sherbrooke in August 1903; Ontario, a specimen was col- 

 lected at Moose Factory in 1862 by J. McKenzie; South Carolina 

 coastal plain, one was seen by Dr. A. K. Fisher near Charleston on 

 April 26, 1886, and another was taken by Wayne in this same gen- 

 eral region on January 15, 1889; Colorado, a specimen was killed at 

 Manitou on or about May 15, 1926; Dominican Republic, Dr. Alex- 

 ander Wetmore on May 31, 1927, at Santiago saw a recently mounted 

 specimen said to have been killed nearby. 



Egg dates. — New England and New York: 72 records, April 19 

 to June 28; 36 records. May 16 to 31. 



New Jersey to Maryland: 57 records, April 13 to June 14; 29 

 records. May 11 to 25. 



South Dakota to Alberta and Saskatchewan: 45 records. May 15 

 to June 27 ; 22 records. May 23 to June 5. 



Ohio to Minnesota : 8 records. May 2 to 21. 



Georgia and Florida to Missouri: 5 records, April 15 to May 26; 3 

 records, May 2 to 17. 



BUTEO BRACHYURUS Vieillot 

 SHORT-TAILED HAWK 



HABITS 



This is another South American hawk, tropical or subtropical in 

 distribution, that appears in the United States only in Florida. It 

 always has been extremely rare and local even there, and now I be- 

 lieve it has almost, if not quite, disappeared from that State. I saw 

 it many years ago in the extensive mangrove swamps of extreme 

 southern Florida, where there may be a few still left. Arthur H. 

 Howell (1932) has published a number of records for the species in 

 various parts of Florida and says that it "occurs locally in small 

 numbers from Cape Sable north to Palatka, Gainesville and St. 

 Marks." The records for central and northern Florida are all old, 

 and I can find no recent ones for any points north of Lake Istok- 



