C II. Merrlntn — liinJx of ( 'oiimctlrKf. 87 



sequel : ' He cMine :in<l nlinhtcd on my tem-e witliiii a lew feet of mv 

 when I was feeding my fowls. 1Micy flew in v\v\\ diicctidn. (aiv- 

 fully steppino- up 1 caught tlu' pretty ereatnie and thought I wouhl 

 save him for tlie doctor. Putting him into a box, I gave him some 

 corn; hut he did not seem /niit(/n/, <(nd would not eat a kerml.'"''* 

 Again, under the name of "Winter Hawk (Buteo /ii/enta/is),'' the 

 doctor continues: "Sitting patiently upon a tree near some sprin<»- 

 or marshy ground, it will watch by the hour for a frog to make its 

 appearance, when it is immediately seized and drowned. TlieR- is a 

 side-hill, some few miles from my office, from wliicli springs con- 

 stantly run in the coldest weather, forming quite a wet, marsliy place, 

 offering great inducements to the Winter Hawk. Here you may see 

 one or more of these birds every winter, perched upon a free near by 

 watching for its favorite food. I received two sj)ecimens shot from 

 that tree in one day."f 



165. Buteo Pennsylvanicus (Wilson) Bonaparte. Broad-winged JIawk. 



A rather rare resident, seldom seen in winter. It breeds sparintfly 

 about New Haven, and Mr. W. W. Coe has taken quite a number of 

 their nests, together with several of the finest specimens of the l>ird 

 that I have ever seen, in the vicinity of Portland, Conn. He informs 

 me that they generally lay later than the Red-shouldered Hawks, and. 

 like them, often build a new nest every year. 



Mr. F. VV. Putnam (in 1856) gave it as a rare winter visitant so 

 far north as Essex Co., Mass.J 



166. Archibuteo lagopus, var. Sancti-Johannis (Omeiin) Ridgway. 



Rough-legged Hawk ; Black Hawk. 



A winter visitor ; not common. I saw one near Xew Haven, Nov. 

 20th, 1875. Mr. Geo. Bird Grinnell tells me that he has seen it, in 

 spring, near North Haven, Conn. It is sometimes quite aluunlant on 

 the low meadows bordering the (-oiniecticut River, where, in the 

 vicinity of East Windsor Ilill, Conn., Dr. William Wood has 

 secured a large number of specimens. The s|)lendid series thus 

 obtained, enabled him, many years ago, to [trove the identity of the 

 two forms, lagopus and Sancti-Johamiis, then considered, by our 



* Hartford Times, chap, xii, June 8th, 18G1. 

 f Hartford Times, chap, xiii, June 15th, 1861. 

 :|: Proceed. Essex Inst., vol. i, p. 203. 185(5. 



