40 Norman A. Wood 



taken at Cando, in a small grove of trees at the edge of town, on June 7. I 

 saw one in 1920 at Lake Upsilon, Turtle Mountains, on August 2, and took 

 one at Devils Lake, August 23. Another was seen there August 24, 1920. 



123. Archibutco lagopus sancti-johannis (Gmelin). Rough-legged Hawk, 

 JUDD, 1917, p. 17; very early spring and late fall migrant, first seen the last of 



March, tolerably common. 



Mr. Reid reports that it is sometimes seen during migration and that a 

 pair wintered in a small coulee north of Bismarck during 1920-21. 



This bird was not seen in life, but there is a mounted specimen in the 

 Williams Collection, taken November i, 1908, at Grafton, where the species 

 is a winter visitor. 



124. Archibutco fcrrugineiis (Lichtenstein). Ferruginous Rough-leg. 

 Baird. 1858, p. 35; a female taken October 12, 1855, on the Little Missouri River 



by Lieut. E. H. Warren. AlLEn, 1871;, p. 65 ; one of the most oonimon species, sev- 

 eral nests found containing young. The nest is often a large, bulky structure, three 

 or four feet in diameter, built of large sticks, mixed with the ril)s of antelope and 

 bison;, and is placed on the ground or rocks usually near the summit of buttes. 

 CouES, 1878, p. 626; found breeding in the P.embina Mountains by Lieut. F. V. 

 Greene's party. HoFrMAN, 1882, p. 402; found in the timber of the river bottoms, 

 though not very common. BendirB, 1892, p. 260; Capt. Goss wrote that the ferru- 

 gineus rough-leg was not uncommon in the high, broken prairie and lake regions 

 of northwest North Dakota. In May, 1880, he took four sets, the nests all on the 

 ground on rocky hillsides and generally near large boulders. Reed, 1904, p. 165; a 

 set taken April 29, 1900, in Stark County, by Roy Dodd. Beint, 1907, pp. 213-214; 

 corrects the name of a rough-legged hawk, supposed to have been the American, 

 found breeding in Nelson County, June 4, 1901, and published in Auk, Vol. XVIH, 

 P- 393. and says : "This nest, I am satisfied, belonged to a pair of ferrugineous 

 rough-legs." On June 17, 1902, Dr. L. B. Bishop found a nest near Lake Washington, 

 North Dakota. All these developed the melanistic plumage. Judd, 1917, p. 17 ; very 

 common summer resident, breeding in considerable numbers in the hills in the 

 northern part of Towner County. First seen early in April. 



In the collection of the Museum of Zoology is a male in melanistic plu- 

 mage, collected October 3, 1920, at Grafton, Walsh County, by H. V. Wil- 

 liams. The museum at the Biological Station, Devils Lake, contains a 

 mounted bird, and there is another in the Williams Collection, taken at 

 Grafton, October i, 1920, by Henry Williams. The only nest known to 

 the writer was found at Stump Lake, July 24, 1920. A pair had nested 

 for years in a thick ash forest at the Wishart Ranch named "Hawks' Rest" 

 by Mrs. F. M. Bailey, who made this place her headquarters while studying 

 the birds of the Stump Lake Region and who wrote of this particular nest 

 (Condor, 1918, Vol. XX, No. 4. p. 136). This species must be greatly 

 reduced from its former numbers, as but two live birds were seen, one 

 August 9, 1920, and another July 11, 1921, both near Bottineau. It is 

 almost wholly beneficial, living on mice, ground squirrels and gophers. 



125. Aquila chrysaetos (Linnaeus). Golden Eagle. 



Allen, 1875, P- 65 ; occasional : young onej captured' on Heart River. Coues, 1897, 



p. 107; Audubon says on July 21, 1843, near Fort Union, he saw young golden eagles. 



This is a rare visitant or straggler in North Dakota. Only three are in 



