No. 2O.] THE BIRDS OF CONNECTICUT. 8l 



Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis (Gmelin). Rough- 

 legged Hawk. 



A rather uncommon winter resident, living about the larger 

 marshes from November to March. 



Earliest record. New Haven, Nov. 4, 1897. Latest record. 

 New Haven, March 8, 1901, April 20, 1889 (L. C. S.). 



Connecticut records: Dr. Wood of East Windsor Hill occa- 

 sionally found it abundant in that locality, 1 and took about forty 

 specimens ; z Merriam 1 saw it near New Haven, Nov. 20, 1875 ; 

 Dec. 25, 1875, Feb. 16, 1880, specimens killed near East 

 Windsor Hill (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; Sept., 1879, Stamford, one 

 taken (recorded by Hoyt) ; Sept. (?), 1883, Saybrook (in coll. 

 of J. N. C.) ; 3 Oct., 1884, near Stamford (Hoyt, in coll. of L. 

 B. B.) ; March 30, 1887, Glastonbury (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; 

 Feb. 17, 1888, New Haven (in Flint coll. of Brewster) ; April 20, 

 1889, New Haven (in coll. of L. C. S.) ; Nov. 16, 1892, Stam- 

 ford (Schaler, in coll. of Porter) ; Dec. 8, 1894, New Haven 

 (A. H. V., in coll. of L. B. B.) ; Jan. 31, 1895, Nov. 4, 1897, 

 Jan. 16, 1899, Jan. 24, 1900, March 8, 1901, Feb. 7, Dec. I, Dec. 

 18, 1903, between New Haven and Guilford (seen by L. B. B.) ; 

 Dec. 24, 1896, Fair Haven, seen in taxidermist's shop (L. B. B.) ; 

 Nov. 20, 1901, Cromwell, two (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; Feb. 24, 

 March 6, 1906, New Haven (E. S. W.). 



Aquila chrysaetos (Linnaeus). Golden Eagle. 



A rare winter visitant. 



Connecticut records. Winter, 1856-7, Hartford, adult taken, 

 seen in the flesh by J. C. Comstock (J. H. S.) ; Dr. Wood occa- 

 sionally saw it about Hartford (prior to 1877) ; 4 Nov. 13, 1875, 

 Deep River, one shot (in coll. of H. W. F.) ; May, 1877, Say- 

 brook, one seen (J. N. C.) ; 4 1879, Southbury, female shot 

 (Wood coll.) ; Oct. 29, 1881, Ragged Mountain, Barkhamsted, 

 one young shot by H. Wedge of Riverton; 5 Nov., 1884, and 

 Nov. 5, 1896, Stamford, two taken (recorded by Hoyt) ; Oct., 

 1887, Preston, one shot (in coll. of G. H. Martin) * Nov. i, 1892, 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., pp. 87-8. 

 'Samuels, Birds of New England, p. 576. 

 3 O. and O., viii, 10, p. 80. 

 4 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 89. 



5O. and O., vi, 10, p. 76; 12, p. 94 (more fully described). 

 6 O. and O. t xii, 12, p. 206. 

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