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undoubtedly hatched in pine grove nearby (McKechnie ms.). 
Greylock, June 13, “08, and June 19, ‘10 (Bridges) ; Bristol Co., 
very rare, breeds (Andros) ; comparatively scarce, I have only met 
with it from early May to late summer, perhaps half a dozen nests 
—the bird is gradually increasing in numbers (Durfee ms.) ; Acush- 
net, instance of capture by Brown, Apr. 12, “S2 (Read). During 
the early years of my collecting, say 10 or 15 years prior to ‘97, I 
never even heard of it in this region, though I spent much in the 
field and was fairly successful in finding all the other common spe- 
cies of hawks and made a specialty of the Raptores. I cannot help 
thinking that it was much less common than now. It was not 
until I met Rev. H. K. Job, then living in N. Middleboro, that I 
began to realize that it was a regular breeder. Te showed me two 
localities where ‘he had taken the eggs in °95, “96 and ‘97. Mr. 
Owen Durfee of Fall River also found a nest in the ‘hardwood tim- 
ber west of Taunton. On May #0, °99, I found my first nest. This 
Was shown me by a young man who claimed to have found a mum- 
ber, and said he considered the species fairly common. Sets were 
taken in the same locality, near Taunton, in “CO and °01, from the 
same pair presumably.. My experience during the past 10 years in 
Bristol and Plymouth counties has taught me that it, though hardly 
common, is by no means rare. As compared with the Red-shoul- 
dered, which is our commonest Buteo, 1 should say that there were 
at least six pairs of the latter to one pair of the Broad-winged. In 
the region that we hunt most thoroughly in the western half of 
Bristol Co., comprising an area approximating 10 miles square, we 
count on locating from 25 to 30 pairs of Red-shoulders, whereas 
we can hardly expect to find over +4 or 5 pairs of Broad-wings 
(Bent ms.). From ’81 up to 1900 IT spent fully as much time each 
season afield here in Bristol and Plymouth Cos. as I have since, 
but not until May 27, 1900, did I ever find a nest, and only one 
shot in 1892—and but two surely identified birds seen previous to 
that; since then it has established itself locally, so much as to he 
recorded as fairly common (Carpenter nis.). 
Plymouth Co.: Caryer, three sets of eggs (Bent ms.); Fairly 
com, S. R. (Carpenter ms.); East Whitman? male, Feb. 29, ‘92 
(Cc. C. F.). Barnstable Co.. Wood's Tole, one noted July 4, “04 
(Jones). Worcester Co.: breeds rather commonly (Brewster) ; 
nesting (Reed); Lancaster, our commonest hawk with the excep- 
tion of Buteo lineatus. IT have found a great many nests that I 
have left unmolested (Thayer mws.). Tampshire Co.: tol. com. S. 
R. in Connecticut valley (Colburn and Morris) ; Amherst and nearly 
the whole county, recorded at Leverett and Pelham (Clark) ; Mon- 
son, set of eggs col. by Milton C. Ilowe (Crandall col.). Hampden 
