192 ^ NOTES ON THE 



I should have said that I find it breeding frequently near the 

 city and about Lake Minnetonka and otherwheres in the Big 

 Woods. 



Nests and eggs are not infrequently brought to me which 

 have been obtained but a short distance from the city. Mr. 

 Washburn found the species rather common in Otter Tail 

 county. That is a fairly representative county of a large 

 section in which I have had but little opportunity for personal 

 observation. The Broad- wing Hawk leaves us about the 20th 

 of Ocfober. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Entire upper parts umber-brown, feathers on the occipatand 

 back of the neck white at their bases; throat white with longi- 

 tudinal lines of brown and with a patch of brown on each side 

 running from the base of the lower mandible; breast with a 

 wide band composed of large cordate and sagittate spots and 

 transverse bands of reddish ferruginous tinged with ashy; 

 other under parts white with numerous sagittate spots of red- 

 dish on the flanks, abdomen and tibiae; quills brownish-black, 

 widely bordered with white on their inner webs; tail dark 

 brown, narrowly tipped with white and with one wide band of 

 white and several narrower bands near the base. 



Length (female), 17 to 18; wing, 11; tail, 6.50 to 7. 



Habitat, eastern North America. 



ARCHIBUTEO LAUOPUS SANCTI-JOHANNIS (Gmelin). 



(347a.) 

 AMERICAN ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. 

 This is not a very common hawk but is at the same time 

 not extremely rare. In its northern migration particularly, it 

 is occasionally seen about the edges of marshes and ditches 

 where it seizes frogs, snakes and wounded ducks. The first 

 one I ever saw was drawn into visible proximity to where I was 

 skulking for a shot at ducks on the wing. It must have discov- 

 ered one that had been previously wounded but which I did 

 not see until afterwards. They are in migration during the 

 last days of March and the first of April, none to my knowl- 

 edge having been seen later than the first of May. They 

 evidently go further to breed. An occasional individual has 

 been shot late in the autumn or early winter and been mounted 

 by the taxidermist. Mr. William Howling, of Minneapolis, 

 has had several in his collection at different times, but gener- 

 ally in immature plumage. My knowledge of this species is 

 mostly confined to my personal observations in the vicinity of 

 where I reside. None of my assistants have reported more 

 than a single identification. 



