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woods in Ledyard, Conn., Apr. 28, he saw a Broad-wing sit- 
ting on a dead limb overlooking huckleberry pasture and 
cultivated land. It was looking intently at something in the 
bushes, which proved to be a blacksnake at least five feet 
long. Doubtless the bird was waiting for the reptile to get 
clear of the bushes before tackling it. MclIlwraith states 
that near the end of April or early May, it may be met with 
in the woods of Southern Ontario, usually sitting quietly on 
the lower branch of a tree near some wet place, watching for 
frogs; Bagg finds it in like situations on the shores of the 
little lakes of the Adirondack region, feeding to a consider- 
able extent on frogs; oné killed had two pairs of frogs legs 
‘in its stomach; and. Sage states that all specimens examined 
at Pertland, Conn., show that it feeds upon frogs. 
The male apparently carries food to the sitting female. 
Henry W. Beers observed at Trumbull, Conn., May 12, 1903, 
a male perched near a nest with three eggs, with a fish in 
-his claws; and John L. Caleord, New Vineyard, Me., flushed 
a female from her nest and eggs, May 30, 1905; the male 
came about carrying a wood mouse in his claws. F. B. 
Spauldings, Lancaster, N. H., May 13, 1898, found a nest 
of fresh eggs containing a dead snake about a foot long. 
“Tt is fond of the larvae (or caterpillars) of the big 
night-flying moths.”—(Henshaw.) 
“Have examined the stomachs of a good many and found 
principally catepillars and grasshoppers.’ —(Kumlien.) 
“In July, 1882, my nephew, Malcolm Storer, being at 
Moosehead lake, (Maine), had the curiosity to examine the 
stomach of a (Broad-winged) Hawk he had shot there, and 
was surprised to find that it contained a large number of 
catepillars in all stages of decomposition through digestion. 
‘They were of greenish color, with yellowish ring or blotches, 
and were as thick and almost as long as a man’s little finger.” 
—(Storer). | 
“Minea, Sierra Nevada of " Santa Marta, Venezuela. 
Stomach of specimens taken Jan. 1% and 22, 1879, were full 
