2IO MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



148 [343] Buteo platypterus (Vieill.). 

 Broad-winged Hawk. 



Not uncommon transient visitor, very rare summer resident ; May 3, July ; 

 September 14 to October 16. 



Mr. J. A. Farley tells me that he has several times seen the bird in the 

 breeding season within the limits of the County, and that it still breeds in Box- 

 ford and Georgetown. Mr. C. E. Brown found a nest with young "many years 

 ago." The clearing off of the forests, however, is not to its taste and it seeks 

 wilder regions. 



Mr. Robert Weston Smith shot a bird of this species near Chebacco Lake 

 between the ist and 15th of July, 1903, a date that suggests breeding. 



149 [347a] Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis (Gmel.). 

 American Rough-legged Hawk. 



Rare transient visitor (winter). 



Mr. Maynard^ records a specimen sent him by Mr. J. F. Le Baron, of 

 Ipswich, killed while flying over the marshes. There are three specimens in the 

 Essex County collection of the Peabody Academy, two of which are dated 

 November and February 21st, 1861, respectively. Mr. J. M. Dodge shot a 

 female in Wenham on December 9th, 1900, and it is now in the collection of 

 Mr. J. R. Mann. Mr. Owen Durfee and Mr. F. B. McKechnie and I saw a bird 

 probably of this species, at Ipswich on November 22d, 1903. 



150 [349] Aquila chrysaetos (Linn.). 

 Golden Eagle. 



Very rare visitor. 



A Golden Eagle was killed in Lynn,^ in 1834. There is a specimen at the 



' C. J. Maynard: The Naturalist's Guide, p. 137, 1870. 

 *F. W. Putnam: Proc. Essex Inst., vol. i, p. 203, 1856. 



