Vol. V. 



1909. 



BULLETIN OF THE CHILDS MUSEUM OF NORTH AM. ORNITHOLOGY 

 Published December 3lst, at Floral Park. N. Y. 



John Lewis Child s, Editor 



Breeding of the Sharp Shinned Hawk on Long Island 

 By John Lewis Childs 



ON May 15th while walking near a thicket of tall cedars at Smithtown, 

 L. I., I was startled by the cry of a Sharp Shinned Hawk which, taking 

 a short flight, perched upon a tree near me. As I moved about the bird 

 would leave his perch, utter his alarm notes and alight again nearby, 

 which action convinced me that a nest was not far off. After a close scrut- 

 iny of the cedars I located the nest in the top of one of them upon which 

 the female was sitting. The nest was found to contain three eggs heavily 

 marked and of unusual beauty. Though I have examined more than one 

 hundred sets of eggs of this bird, this was with one exception the most beau- 

 tiful I ever saw and now rests in my cabinet. The bird did not return to the 

 nest to lay another set, but as they were seen two weeks later in the vicinity 

 one may presume that they nested not far away. 



Last Record of the Breeding of the Bartramian Sandpiper in Maine 



1 FOUND the past summer in an old collection of birds' eggs at Liver- 

 more, Maine, two sets of Bartramian Sandpiper with data as follows : 

 "Livermore, Maine, June 10, 1893. Four eggs; nest in a field on the ground 

 in hole made by bird. No lining." " Livermore, Maine, June 13, 1897. 

 Four eggs. Nest found in an old pasture on Butte hill." 



Both sets were collected by J. C. Teague, and are now in my collection. 



" /. L. C. 



