Shufeldt, on the Broad-wixged Hawk. 59 



quenting the same places, coming- down with them to drink 

 and bathe and trying to make their feeble song heard when 

 the Goldfinches made pauses. Goldfinches, also, came ten 

 days later than in other years. The bulk of males was first 

 noticed May 1st and the height of migration occurred Mav 13th 

 to 19th, when flocks of a hundred or more, both sexes, were 

 at their old stands. Smaller numbers, mostly females, were 

 left at these places until the 33rd. after which summer resi- 

 dents only were seen. 



Purple Finches, usually present in troops from March 10th 

 to April 30th made a change tliis year by coming only on 

 April 30th and staying in flocks till May 1st and in smaller 

 numbers, brown birds, till May 19th. 



As a counterpart of the unexplained reappearance of the 

 Song Sparrows in May must be mentioned the still more re- 

 markable presence of a Brown Creeper in song May 19th in 

 a renmant of native timber within the city limits of St. Louis. 

 None had been seen since April 30th. 



NOTES OX THE BROAD-WLXGED HAWK. 



(Buteo platypterus.) 



nv R. w. siirFEi-irr, f. a. o. u. 



Upon looking over, the ether day, sonije old unpublished 

 ornithological notes and negatives of mine I came across some 

 that referred to the Broad-winged Hawk, and as the account 

 includes the keeping in captivity three subadult specimens of 

 this species, taken by mys;lf. I thought perhaps that the 

 material might be worthy of preservation. 



The pair had nested within, about a mile of my then resi- 

 dence at Takom.a Park, Marylani^l, and both my son and my- 

 self were acquainted with the fact, having often noticed the 

 birds circling overhead in the vicinity. They had selected a 

 tall, ill-shapen oak with short, crooked limbs, and the nest was 



