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fall I bought six hundred and forty acres of land near 

 Mt. Carmel. I shall have to go out and see it. There 

 may be some birds on it." 



In 1882, when Mr. Boardman was in Minneapolis, he 

 wrote Mr. Ridgway on September 15: "The little 

 hawk, if a Broad-winged, is in very queer plumage. I 

 have a good series of Broad-wings, yet nothing like it. 

 If it had been taken in the fall I should have been less 

 surprised ; but taken in the spring when those small 

 hawks are in full plumage, appeared strange. You can 

 keep it as my collection is so much shut up and seen by 

 so few people it would never be seen by many naturalists 

 and I want it to be in the Smithsonian." That same 

 month, writing from Fargo, he says: "The hawk I 

 sent you was a male from Calais, about June 15. The 

 men on my son's farm told me of an eagle's nest on a 

 little hillock. The entire foundation was Buffalo ribs put 

 in with sods so as to make a very pretty shaped nest. 

 There were no other bones but ribs. Black Vultures are 

 quite plenty here. I shot one to make sure." In a letter 

 dated Minneapolis, February 26, 1883, Mr. Boardman 

 writes : "I notice your surprise at my seeing Buzzard 

 Black Vulture up in northern Dakota. It was a surprise 

 to me, but I did not know but it was a place where they 

 had been found and not hearing from you did not write 

 to Forest and Stream but will do so now. I notice in 

 one of the late numbers Mr. Byrne of Crockett's Bluff 

 doubts about Buzzards being found in Maine, or so far 

 north, as he has never, after living in Illinois half a 

 century, ever seen one there. I have found them in 

 Nova Scotia, at Grand Manan, in New Brunswick and 

 in Maine." 



