192 NOTES ON THE 
I should have said that I find it breeding frequently near the 
city and about Lake Minnetonka and otherwheres in the Big 
Woods. 
Nests and eggs are not infrequently brought to me which 
have been obtained but a short distance from the city. Mr. 
Washburn found the species rather common in Otter Tail 
county. That is a fairly representative county of a large 
section in which I have had but little opportunity for personal 
observation. The Broad-wing Hawk leaves us about the 20th 
of October. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Entire upper parts umber-brown, feathers on the occiput and 
back of the neck white at their bases; throat white with longi- 
tudinal lines of brown and with a patch of brown on each side 
running from the base of the lower mandible; breast with a 
wide band composed of large cordate and sagittate spots and 
transverse bands of reddish ferruginous tinged with ashy; 
other under parts white with numerous sagittate spots of red- 
dish on the flanks, abdomen and tibize; quills brownish-black, 
widely bordered with white on their inner webs; tail dark 
brown, narrowly tipped with white and with one wide band of 
white and several narrower bands near the base. 
Length (female), 17 to 18; wing, 11; tail, 6.50 to 7. 
Habitat, eastern North America. 
ARCHIBUTEO LAGOPUS SANCTI-JOHANNIS (GMELIN). 
(347a. ) 
AMERICAN ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. 
This is not avery common hawk but is at the same time 
not extremely rare. In its northern migration particularly, it 
is occasionally seen about the edges of marshes and ditches 
where it seizes frogs, snakes and wounded ducks. The first 
one I ever saw was drawn into visible proximity to where I was 
skuiking for a shot at ducks on the wing. It must have discov- 
ered one that had been previously wounded but which I did 
not see until afterwards. They are in migration during the 
last days of March and the first of April, none to my knowl- 
edge having been seen later than the first of May. They 
evidently go further to breed. An occasional individual has 
been shot late in the autumn or early winter and been mounted 
by the taxidermist. Mr. William Howling, of Minneapolis, 
has had several in his collection at different times, but gener- 
ally in immature plumage. My knowledge of this species is 
mostly confined to my personal observations in the vicinity of 
where I reside. None of my assistants have reported more 
than a single identification. 
