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I have seen them each season but have never succeeded in locating a nest. 

 This year (1909) I flushed a Woodcock on May 18. Last year a setting 

 female was caught by a cat in our town park May 23 and sent to me by the 

 owner of the cat. 



99. Circus hudsonius. Marsh Hawk. — Rare resident. Seen here 

 each year but the only nesting record I have is one shot off its nest on the 

 ground near Lynn Grove, by Mr. Rush, a farmer, and eggs broken. 



100. Buteo platypterus. Broad-winged Hawk. — Not a rare summer 

 resident. Seen each season at Lynn Grove and Salt Fork; kept one six 

 months as a pet. Dr. Jessee had four young taken from a nest here. On 

 May 5, 1909, I went to Salt Fork timber to collect a set from a nest which 

 I located. I found one of the Broad-wings at the foot of the tree dead and 

 the nest shot to pieces. 



101. Bubo virginianus. Great Horned Owl. — Rare resident. Have 

 mounted four in eight years that were captured here. On May 16, 1906, 

 I captured two young just able to fly in Salt Fork timber and a farmer 

 showed me the tree in which they were hatched 



102. Chordeiles virginianus. Nighthawk. — Common summer resident. 

 Arrives April 29 to May 10. Fall flights begin August 30 to September 5. 

 Tliis bird nests with us each summer but I have not secured a set. A 

 farmer plowed over a nest of two eggs in early June of last year but could 

 not save them. 



103. Dolichonyx oryzivorus. Bobolink. — Abundant migrant but 

 rare summer resident. I have noted its presence during breeding months 

 for five seasons. During May and June, 1909, two pairs made their homes 

 in Maple Grove meadows three miles west. On May 27, 1909, I flushed a 

 female from the timothy in Penmanfield at edge of village. 



104. Bombycilla cedrorum. Cedar Waxwing. — Rare summer resi- 

 dent. Common both north and south of this locality but very rare in tliis 

 immediate vicinity. I saw a flock of 20 in Bowse's Grove June 26, 1906. 

 Two young were shot in August, 1908, at Lynn Grove, which would seem 

 to prove that they nested that year at least in the grove of pines at edge 

 of timber. 





