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Calais, Aug. 11, 1899. 

 My Dear IIallock: 



I received your note a few days since and notice what you 

 say about remaining over at Dennysville for the remainder of the 

 season. I laiow Mr. Allen keeps a better place than j'ou could 

 find here, and Dennysville is a good place, only it is too far from 

 Calais, as we " birds of a feather " like to be together. 



In regard to the black hawk which you see in North Caro- 

 lina, I would say I only know of one large black hawk (not steel 

 blue) that we call the liougb-legged Archibuteo (lagopus sanct- 

 johannis) if I liave spelled it right. We have it here rarely, a 

 kind of brownish black, and I have seen a few very black and 

 think this must be the hawk you see. It is a sluggish flyer about 

 like a Red-tail or Marsh Hawk. I don't know how far south they 

 go but they used to be common down about the Delaware, and 

 about the best specimen I ever saw was at the Academy of Sci- 

 ence at Philadelphia. I have several in my collection, two 

 mounted ones. I never saw one in Florida, but they maj' go 

 south, and some of them may be blue and be a Rough-legged. 

 Last fall one of my sons was out duck shooting and said a Black 

 Marsh Hawk flew very near them. It was probably what Ave 

 call a Dark Rough-leg. I once saw out at Dakota a Black 

 Broad-wing. It was sent to the Smithsonian I think. 



Not much of anj'thing new over this way except picnicking 

 up and down the river. All join in kind regards to you and Mrs. 

 Hallock. 



Yours as ever, 



Geo. a. Boardman. 



Calais, Sept. 8, 1899. 

 My Dear Hallock: 



I am glad to hear you have been having so pleasant a time at 

 Mount Desert. I have not been there for twenty years and used 

 to think it was about the nicest place on the coast of Maine. I 

 am also verj- glad to hear that Mrs. Hallock is feeling so much 

 better. 



I was sorry to hear yesterday of the death of one of your old 

 Dennysville neighbors, Deacon Vose, who died very suddenlj'. I 

 have known him since my boyhood a very nice man. I was 



