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usual interval; a single whistle sufficed, it was not repeated 
until after the regular period. The whistle of the male was 
an octave higher always. The female loomed up large and 
light in the clear sunlight, without leaves to obstruct the 
view, as I passed almost directly under her. 
Chas. C. Richards likens it to the Wood Pewee’s last syl- 
lable, longer drawn out, tone between Wood Pewee and Kill- 
deer. He has heard its note when it sounded almost exactly 
like a young Beetle-head’s (Black-breasted Plover), as it 
came back to decoy after one of the flock had been winged. 
In one instance where the second egg was very small and 
doubtless the bird aged, it had a cracked whistle on the last 
of the note. Full note “ Peeo-we-e-e-c.’ Male different 
from female. Knight gives it as a shrill whistled “Kuw-e-e-c.” 
It is worthy of note that Dr. Coues found the young cap- 
tive Swainson’s ‘Hawks, a closely related species, uttering 
a “peculiarly plaintive whistle to signify hunger or a sense 
of loneliness, a note that was almost musical in its intona- 
tion. The old birds have a harsh scream,” and.the Verrills 
state that the note of their newly described Buteo tropilis 
Tropical Buzzard of San Domingo, resembles that of B. 
flatypterus. Ober states that the Dominican form of Broad- 
wing,B. p. rivieriet, courses above the valley uttering its cry 
of mal fini fini.” 
Enemies. 
Man is the chief, and it may be said with almost equal 
truth, the only deadly enemy with which the Broad-winged 
Hawk has to contend. Some years ago I noticed a fine 
specimen nailed in the prevailing spread-eagle fashion to a 
barn door at Paulding’s bridge, within a stone’s throw of 
the Bakewell estate where Audubon captured his first ex- 
ample. I thought that if this was a lineal descendant of that 
historic bird, inheriting a portion of its peculiar disposition, 
the hunter responsible for this one’s death had no great rea- 
son to feel proud of either his markmanship or woodcrait. 
Every person possessing a gun seems to take a peculiar 
delight in persecuting this and all other species of the Rap- 
