240) Tur Witson BULLETIN—NOs. 76-77. 
its chosen haunts are in the more remote and largest tracts 
of medium-sized chestnut and oaks, usually in high and dry 
woods. In Bristol and Plymouth counties, it is a quiet, re- 
tiring, forest-loving species, and for that reason may be eas- 
ily overlooked. I have never seen it circling high in the air 
and screaming as both the Red-tailed and Red-shouldered 
Hawks are wont to'do, and almost never see it except in the 
breeding season, and then only in the deep woods. AI- 
though it breeds on the average a month later than the Red- 
shouldered, it frequents practically the same localities 
(Bent ms.). 
In Fairfield Co., Ccnn., its persistancy of nesting is not 
so marked as with the Red-shouldered, and my experience is 
rather at variance with other writers in this respect. It pre- 
fers to take rather open situations for nesting, and very fre- 
quently the nests are located close to where woodchoppers 
have just finished off chopping (Beers ms.). About Nor- 
wich, Conn., the nest is generally found near the head of a 
small ravine; if a brook runs through it, from brook to 
quarter way up hill. Any little gullies in outskirts of heavy 
timber near a pond hole or where the ground is fairly clean; 
and when the above conditions do not exist, not over 75 
yards from the edge of the woods and near a cart read. 
Whichever location is selected, nest will be within sight of 
water and near farms, never in a wilderness. My experience 
is that it never travels far, and I have not seen one half a 
mile from its nest (Richards ms.). At Stephentown, N. Y., 
the nesting sites are all in the vicinity of water, swamps. 
small streams or ponds. and often close to wood roads, wood 
paths or little cpenings in the woods, or near edge of large 
tracts, not far from open pastures or meadows. These nest- 
ing sites were all mixed woodland, in which hemlock or 
pines were well represented (Hoag ms.). Near Auburn, N. 
Y., a nest was built near the edge of a quite heavily timbered 
small swamp, perhaps 20 acres in extent, having standing 
water. The principal growth of trees were elm and_ black 
ash: on the west and S. W. sides of the swamp was upland, 
