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he poured forth his doleful strain. This was the first attempt 
at resistance | had witnessed, as when frightened from the 
nest, the female will fly heavily away a little distance and re- 
main among the tree tops, an anxious witness of the collector’s 
depredations.”—Preston. 
“The collector does not have to reconnoiter around two or 
three hundred yards to get a shot at a Broad+wing, but can 
walk deliberately up to within easy range and collect his bird. 
Last summer, one allowed me to approach so near him that | 
killed it with a stone from a ‘sling. They are beyond doubt 
the least suspicious of any of our hawks.’—Cantwell. 
Edward J. Kimes, Canton, Ohio, relates another instance of 
the consuming curiosity of the bird. On Mar. 27, 1910, when 
it was approached along the edge of a wood in the hope of a 
nearer view, it Hew slowly out and above him at the height 
of the tree tops and then leisurely back again, alighting face 
about and scrutinized him closely, this was repeated three or 
four times. 
At Middletown Springs, Vermont, during the autumnal 
flight of 1904, one was caught on a fence close to a house. 
The people watching, unintentionally attracted its attention 
while a boy crawled along the fence and grasped it by the 
legs. This sounds unreasonable, but never-the-less it is a 
fact told me by the boy and by his father who saw him do it; 
both are well known to me and reliable. I saw the hawk, which 
showed no signs of haying been kept in captivity. It never 
became at all tame and was given its liberty before winter.— 
W.S. Hickox ms. 
Philo, Ill. A boy brought me one which he says allowed 
him to knock it off a limb with a ten foot stick. Last year I 
kept a wounded one captive until his wound healed. He be- 
came a model pet and when a week after I released him in 
Lynn Grove, he allowed me to catch him again, I felt that he 
had not forgotten me.—Isaac E. Hess wis. 
In North Carolina it is a little:‘tamer than the other Buteos, 
C. S. Brimley mys.; and at Tallahassee, Florida, it appears 
