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and winter ; rare summer resident. From the White Moun- 

 tains northward the bird is probably a regular breeder, 

 and Mr. F. B. Spaulding writes that he has found its nest 

 and eggs on the banks of the Connecticut river on the Vermont 

 side opposite Lancaster. South of the White Mountain region, 

 it has been recorded by Mr. Ned Dearborn ('98, p. 14) as hav- 

 ing bred at Dunbarton, where, in 1897, a female was shot on 

 her nest, and sent to Mr. Thomas R. Payson, of Northfield, in 

 whose possession the skin now is. Mr. Ralph Hoffmann (: 03) 

 writes that on July 21, 1902, he discovered a nest of this .species 

 at Alstead, in the southwestern part of the state. It contained 

 two young, nearly full grown, which were already taking 

 short flights by the ?9th of July. One of these young 

 birds was shot, and is now in the collection of Mr. William 

 Brewster, of Cambridge, Mass. The nest was placed in a small 

 pine, at a height of thirty-five or forty feet. The migrating birds 

 appear in fall in the lower part of the state about the last of 

 October, and Mr. W. E. Cram, of Hampton Falls, writes me 

 of having seen it there so late in the spring as March 10. 

 Dates : October 25 to March 10 ; Summer. 



105. Buteo bore alls (Gmel.). RED-TAILED HAWK. 



An uncommon, though generally distributed permanent resi- 

 dent of the lower Canadian region, breeding in the well wooded 

 upland and mountainous districts. There is a slight migratory 

 movement on the part of many of these birds, so that they are 

 resident in winter in the southern parts of the state at localities 

 from which they are generally absent in summer. They winter 

 so far north at least as the southern valleys of the White Moun- 

 t ains. 



106. Buteo liiieatus (Gmel.). RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 

 An uncommon permanent resident of general distribution at 



the lower altitudes throughout the wooded areas of the south- 

 ern and central parts of the state. The bird is apparently rare 

 so far up as the White Mountains. Mr. F. B. Spaulding omits 

 it from a list of birds seen by him at Lancaster, and I have 

 never positively identified it but once at Intervale, where on 



