The Oologist. 



VOL. XVIII. NO. 1. 



ALBION. N. Y., JAN., 1901. 



Whole No. 173 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 



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Nesting of the Broad-wingfed Hawk. 



On the 16th of May, 1895, while walk- 

 ing through a grove of oaks on the edge 

 of a marsh and within fifty yards of a 

 small stream, I frightened a hawk from 



a nest twenty feet up in the crotch of an 



oak tree. 



I thought it was a Cooper's Hawk, al- 

 though the plaintive cry it made as it 

 perched amrng ihe branche.s of a tree, 

 one hundred feet away, was new tome. 

 It sounded like ''siggee,''"siggee," some- 

 thing like a Kil deer, a Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeak or the alarm cy of a Red- 

 wing Blackbird. 



The cry was repeated constantly and 

 had a somewhat ventrilcquial effect, so 

 that it was hard to tell just where the 

 birds were, especially as they kept pret- 

 ty well out of sight and did not fly 

 around much. 



When 1 reached the nest I found it to 

 be about the size of a crow's, and built 

 of sticks and twigs, rather c'umsily put 

 together, and lined with a few pieces of 

 bark and eight green oak leaves. It 

 only contained two eggs and still think- 

 ing the bird to be a Cooper's Hawk, I 

 left it and did not go ba?k until the 20th, 

 wben the hawk was again on thf^ nest. 

 As no more eggs had been laid. I took 

 the two, and on blowing found that in- 

 cubation was about one-third advanced. 

 The eggs are of a uniform dull white, 

 one blotched and spotted at the larger 

 end, and the other at the smaller end, 

 with faint lilac, which has a clouded 

 effect as if it was under the shell. They 

 are rather small, measuring 1.87 x 1 47 

 and 1 93 X 1.52. After looking up the 

 sut ject and getting the opinions of other 

 oologists, I came to the conclusion that 

 they were the eggs of Buteo latissimus. 



The following year, on May 26th, as I 

 was passing through the same piece of 

 woods, I thought I would take a look at 

 the old nest, and as I drew near a hawk 

 flew from a new one in anothertree not 



