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THE RED-TAILED HAWK. 
(BuTEo BoREALIs.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Not noticed by Newton. 
Noticed by Seebohm, 
who conjectures as above that the three species of Buteo 
there mentioned may have been let out of confinement by 
their keepers. With reference to the testimony in favour 
of the occurence, Mr. Felkin, of Lenton, near Nottingham, 
stated in his list of Nottinghamshire birds (1866) that a 
Buzzard which had been killed in the Autumn of 1860, 
between Mansfield and Newstead, had been submitted 
whilst in the flesh to Ir. Gould, who identified it as 
‘Buteo borealis.’ This is the account given in Sterland’s 
and Whitaker’s List of the Birds of Nottingham (1879.) 
It has a wide range through North America, extend- 
ing to the fur countries, according to Sir J. Richardson, 
and is the commonest Hawk in Jamaica. Mr. A. Fowler 
gives an interesting account of a nest taken in Danvers, 
Mass. ‘“B. Borealis usually begin to build their nests 
about April 1. They select some tall tree near the 
middle of a wood, the branches of which form a crotch 
near its trunk. To this chosen spot the female carries 
a sufficient quantity of sticks for its outside; the male 
taking no very active part in the matter; and for its in- 
side she uses the dead bark from the branches of the 
chesnut, which she beats and picks to pieces with her bill, 
making it soft and pliable ; or gathers the fallen leaves 
of the pine, or some other soft material, which she finds 
convenient as a lining, which is about 1 inch in thickness: 
it is 13 inches in outside diameter, and-7 inches in inside 
diameter, which is 24 inches deep. The female usually 
