Vol. XT General Notes. 83 



1893 J 



The Calais bird above mentioned was shot by a countryman and brought 

 into town with some Ruffed Grouse. After passing successively through 

 the hands of a provision dealer, who bought it of the countryman, of a 

 lady (a Mrs. Ryder), who bought it of the provision dealer, and of a local 

 taxidermist, bv whom it was received and mounted October 10, it found a 

 final and appropriate resting place in the well-known collection of Mr. 

 George A. Boardman to whom I am indebted for these facts as well as for 

 the following description of the specimen : "It is a young bird of unknown 

 sex. The back is black with many of the feathers bordered with yel- 

 lowish ; the tail lighter than the back with about a dozen black bars; the 

 head, neck, and lower parts fine, delicate yellowish, the feathers of the 

 head and neck striped with black; the breast spotted coarsely along its 

 sides, more finely across the middle, with black. The throat and tail 

 coverts are yellowish white. Beneath the chin black markings, arranged 

 in series, form a distinct mustache. With its generally ochraceous ground 

 color and bold dark markings the bird is a strikingly handsome spec- 

 imen." There are two known instances of the previous occurrence of 

 this species in Maine, at Gouldsboro, Sept. 15, 1886 (Brewster, Auk IV, 

 April, 1887, p. 160), and at Glenburn near Bangor, May 19, 1888 {id., 

 ibid., V, Oct., 1888, p. 424). 



In this connection it may be worth while to mention still another Eastern 

 specimen of Swainson's Hawk which is preserved in the Greene Smith 

 collection of mounted birds. 1 This specimen, so the label states, was 

 killed in Onondaga County, New York, in October, 1877, and was 

 "presented [to Mr. Smith] by T. Bex and Ed. Lodder of Syracuse." It is 

 a young bird, of the light or normal phase, in fresh autumnal plumage. 

 So far as I know, it has never'previously been recorded.— William Brew- 

 ster, Cambridge, Mass. 



Swainson's Hawk in the East.— Two records of the occurrence of this 

 Western Buteo hundreds of miles east of the eastern boundary of its habi- 

 tat have come to my notice through Mr. Geo. A. Boardman of Calais, 

 Maine, and Mr. L. S. Foster of New York City. Both individuals were 

 immature birds, and were shot within six days of each other, although 

 some hundreds of miles apart. It may be possible that a small eastward 

 migration of this species took place in the early fall, and these records 

 may be added to by the readers of 'The Auk.' Mr. Boardman says, 

 "The Hawk is a young Swainson's, a fine specimen, and was shot Oct. 6, 

 within six miles of Calais. It is the first one I have ever known to occur 

 here. It is now in my collection." 2 



The New York specimen was shot by and is in the possession of Mr. 

 W. Williams of Brooklyn, New York. It was examined and identified 

 by Mr. Arthur H. Howell, who obtained the following information about 

 the specimen : It was shot October 14, at Meadow Brook Farm, near 



1 Lately given by Mrs. Smith to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



2 This is the same specimen described above by Mr, Brewster — Eds. 



