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Owls of the United States/' where in a tabular list of 

 stomachs examined, one is cited as collected on January 20, 

 1890 at Huntington, Long Island. Whether this stomach 

 came from a Broad-winged Hawk is strongly open to doubt. 

 If it did, it would merely prove that this species had occurred 

 once casually in winter. Old reports of March arrivals and 

 all other winter records are sight records, made at a time 

 when the books misled the student, and he had no apprecia- 

 tion of the importance of his observation. When we consider 

 in addition the proved unreliability of most sight records of 

 this species until recent years, it seems the best thing to 

 reject all abnormal dates until such are definitely authenti- 

 cated by specimens. 



Long Island. Locally a fairly common summer resident on 

 the higher parts of the north shore and the wilder parts of the south 

 shore. Definite dates are defective. The few breeding birds appar- 

 ently arrive late, and Long Island seems out of the main track of 

 transients, at least in spring. Definite dates are May 10 to Sep- 

 tember 24, 1887 (Long Island City, specimen taken). The bird 

 should certainly occur in late April and early October. 



ORIENT. Rare summer resident on Gardiner's Island and 

 Greenport (Latham). Mr. Latham's dates are March 10 to 

 November 20; these must be regarded as problematical until 

 authenticated by specimens (Griscom). 



MASTIC. Uncommon summer resident. The earliest 

 arrival date in many years' observation is May 10, 1921. 

 New York State. Generally a rare transient in our section. 

 Perhaps still nesting near Ossining, as it did formerly (Fisher). 



CENTRAL PARK. Very rare transient, not recorded in the 

 last ten years, many of the earlier reports problematical. May 

 1, 1909 (Griscom) to May 20, 1911 (Anne A. Crolius); Sep- 

 tember 9, 1913 (Hix) to September 27, 1905 (Hix). There 

 was a marked flight in the fall of 1905, and hundreds were 

 seen overhead on September 23 (S. H. Chubb). 



BRONX REGION. Rare transient; April 24, 1921 (Granger); 

 September 17, 1919 (Granger); September 22, 1915 (L. N. 

 Nichols); September 17, 1922 (Griscom). 



New Jersey. A common summer resident in the hills, replacing 

 the Red-shouldered Hawk of the lowlands. In the northwestern 



