BurNs—On BRrOAD-wWINGED HAWK. ye 
Co.; Springfield (Stearns and Coues); quite rare, breeds (Allen). 
Breeds regularly and commonly in the mountains west of Westfield, 
rare in the river town[ships] during the spring and autumn (Mor- 
ris). Berkshire Co. Rare S. R., found breeding by Mr. Archibald 
Hopkins, near Williamstown, identified by Mr. Brewer. Mr. R. T. 
Fisher found a pair nesting near the Cheshire reservoir. 'Speci- 
men killed in Dalton, Apr. 2, 98. From advice received we believe 
that this hawk is a tol. com. S. R. on the eastern slope of the Green 
mts. in adjoining counties of Hampshire and Hampden (Faxon and 
Hoffman). 
RHODE ISLAND.—Large flights in certain sections (Dunn): an 
uncom. migrant and rare 8. R. (Mowe, Allen). It is of very local 
distribution and I am not aware of it nesting east of the Narragan- 
sett bay and the Providence river. The most northern breeding 
record is Gloucester, Providence Co., and the most southern at 
Wakefield, Washington Co., May 10, ’03, nest completed but not 
revisited. The woods in the western part of the state have been 
eut in recent years, greatly reducing fayorable localities for all of 
the hawks to nest in. If any one was to ask me to find a nest this 
year I do not think I could do it, with the possible exception of 
South Kingston, where I found a nest but no eggs some 4 or 5 
years ago. There is a probability of one or two pairs in the neck 
of woods in the northern part of the state, however. At Charles- 
town, in the open woods just north of Quawchontang pond, I saw 
a young bird Aug. 4, 706. A nest with two young just hatched and 
an egg which was pipped, was found June 19, ‘O07, by Walter A. 
Angell in West Greenwich. On June 9, 710, I saw two birds in open 
woods near Summit (Hathaway ms.). My experience has been 
that Broad-wings do not return to the same locality year after year. 
In only one instance have I found a nest in the same grove in two 
successive years. The four nests taken in 06 were all within an 
area of two square miles, yet not a single pair returned to this 
locality in *O7 (Flanagan ms.). Records of the collection of sets 
of eggs: Providence Co., May 27, '05, by I. and J. Flanagan; Glou- 
cester, May 13, (90, by Wm. A. Sprague; May 19, 02, by Walter 
A. Angell; Cranston, May 11, 700, and May 24, ‘01, by H. S. Hatha- 
way; Smithfield, June 2, ‘94, by W. A. Angell, who shot the female; 
Kent Co., May 19, ’04, by J. H. Flanagan and C. H. Remington; 
May 26, 00, May 26, 01 (2), May 13, 19 and 27 (2), ’06, by TI. and 
J. Wlanagan; Washington Co., Bast Greenwich, occupied nests 
found May 13, ’00, and June 9, ’01, by F. BE. Newberry; Kingston, 
by Prof. Geo. Field, while at the Agricultural Experimental Sta- 
tion, eggs since destroyed and no date kept (Hathaway ms.). 
(Merriam) ; found breeding (Wood); S. R., but breeds sparingly ; 
