Jan. 1891.] 



AND OOLOGIST. 



(Cloudings on the eggs of this species are 

 rather a rare type of markings, as spots and 

 blotches are the usual form): i.()(> x 1.7"); 

 2.11x1.75; 2.0.")xl.7o. 



Set LIV. May 11, 1884. Folly Works, 

 Trout Brook, Preston, Ct. Collected by "J. 

 M. W." "Small leafy nest, scantily feathered, 

 well out on long horizontal limb of tall oak. 

 Scattering trees. Female identified." Two 

 eggs, fresh. Bluish white; one spotted with 

 burnt umber near the larger end; the other 

 marked with large blotches and spots of pur- 

 plish lilac (rather a rare color for this species) 

 and a few specks of russet: 2.28x1.74; 

 2.2:^x1.7(1. 



Set LV. .May 1:!. 18811. Sunnysidc \V Is, 



Norwich, Ct. Collecte.l by ".I. .M. \V." 

 "From immemorial chestnut. Only pair of 

 liiiteii.s in woods — observed daily. .Second 

 set — one egg just laid. First set, .\pril 20, 

 1886." Three eggs, fresh. Dull white; two 

 (if them spotted and speckled with Iiurnt 

 umber: the third has an entirely uui(|ue color- 

 ing for 1 have never seen an egg with the same 

 m:irkiugs. Tliey consist of specks and spots 

 of the fasliionablc color known as "crushed 

 strawberry'" (more like vinaceons cohn- than 

 anything else) and having an immense blotch 

 of this tint: 2.04x 1.68; 2.00x1.(1(1; 2.0:1 x 1.(18. 

 SetLVI. .\pril 1.5, 18SR. "The Commons," 

 Trcston. Ct. Clollected by " .1. M. W."" " Xest 

 ill straight chestnut with limbless trunk well 

 scarred with climbing irons. Nest, presum- 

 ably old, sixty-five feet high. Shy hawks, 

 soaring high, calling faintly." Two eggs, 

 fresli. Bluish white, spotted and streaked 

 with purplish gray, and a few blotches of 

 chestnut. The purplish spots look as if some 

 one had taken a brush and spread out the color 

 lengthwise before it was dry. 'I'he effect is 

 very odd: 2. 2:^. x 1 . 7.5 ; 2.10x1.74. 



Set LVIl. March 20, 1857. Iredell County, 

 X. C. Collected by R. B. .McLaughlin. Old 

 nest, remodelled, in crotch of .Spanish oak, 

 fifty feet up. Four eggs, fre.sh. Bluish white; 

 two of them spotted with chestnut; the third 

 sjiotted with lavender-gray and russet: while 

 the third has chestnut and jiurplish gray 

 markings, that the appearance of liaving been 

 brushed lengthwise, as described above 

 (.SetLVI): 2.10x 1.70: 2.04 x l.(ri: 2.14x1.7:^.; 

 2.1.5x1.74. 



SetLVIlI. May 0,1888. Xear City Keser- 

 voir, Norwich, Ct. Collected by ".I. M. W." 

 "Second set. First set of four, .\pril 22<1. 

 X'est in tall, straight chestnut. In 1887. this 

 hawk hatched two young from her second 



clutch, which were taken and 'raised' until 

 they were larger than their ])arents — in their 

 first year showing the plumage of Hiifutii.i." 

 Three eggs, fresh. Bluish white, spotted and 

 blotched with chestnut: 2.Uixl.7.5: 2.15x1.74: 

 2.15x1.72. 



Set LIX. April 28, 1888. Lynch's Swamp, 

 Preston, Ct. Collected by " .1. M. W." "New, 

 big black nest on peculiar site. Inside of a 

 small, circular swamp had been cut off, except 

 one tall, lone pepperidge; no lower limbs; top, 

 later, would by foliage have screened nest; 

 female covering eggs in this exposed eyrie 

 until tree was pouinled." Three ef;gs, fresh. 

 IJluish wliite. spotted with russet: 1 .'.i.'i x 1 04 : 

 2.08x1(11: 2.01x1.(14. Small eggs for this 

 species. 



Set LX. April 14, 1880. Sandy Hollow. 

 Ledyard. Ct. Collected by " .1. -M. W'.' " Old 

 nest retouched. Both hawks in attendance 

 and noisy." Two eggs, fresh. White; one 

 spotted with bright chestnut, principally at 

 the larger end: the other marked with a num- 

 ber of blotches of chestnut and purplish gray. 

 The mirkings on the last described egg have 

 the curious appearance described in Sets LVI 

 and LVII: 2.14x1.70: 2.10x1.7:!. 



Set LXI. \\>n\ 27. 18S4. McClimon's 

 Swamp, Preston, Ct. Collected by ".1. M. W." 

 "Nest low down in maple. Only reached by 

 wading through bog." Two eggs, fresh. Dull 

 white: one lilotched and spotted with fawn 

 color; the other blotched with bunil umlier: 

 2.26x1.75; 2.12x 1.74. 



Set 1;XII. April 19, 1885. (ioodrich, Mich. 

 Collected by Samuel Spicer. Xest in forks of 

 Burr Oak, about forty feet up. Old nest. 

 Third set taken from this nest. Four eggs, 

 incubation begun. Dull white; one marked 

 with a few specks of russet: another spotted 

 very thickly with the same color; and the 

 other two heavily blotched and spotted with 

 burnt umber: 2.2:^x1.70; 2.21 x 1.74: 2.18x1.08; 

 2.27x1.7(1. 



Set LXllI. April 21, 1880. Fairview Beser- 

 voir, Norwich, Ct. Collected l)y "J. M. \X." 

 "Two eggs on the 14th, three on 20th. Hawk 

 flushed three times from well repaired ohl 

 nest, in heart of woods, in slim, straight 

 chestnut. The first crotch fifty-five feet high. 

 Nest originally crow's. Four eggs from it in 

 1880. Four eggs from it April 22, 1888. In 

 1887 they used another nest." Four eggs, 

 fresh. Bluish white, beautifully spotted and 

 blotched with vinaceous-cinnamou, ru.sset and 

 chestnut: 2.10x1.74; 2.15x1.78: 2.10x1.7:^: 

 2.24x1.7:5. One of the eggs is marked with 



