AVES. 101 



RAPTORES. FALCONES. 



FALCONIDAE. 



Open prairie country or edges of woods near streams; nests in 

 trees. 



Me. — Occasional visitor from West. May 19; Sept. 15, Oct. 8. 



Vt. — Rare visitor: Lunenburg. 



Mass. — Rare visitor (four records). April 20-Nov. 7. 



192. BuTEO PLATYPTERUS (Vieillot) Faxon. 

 Broad-winged hawk. 



Sparvius platypterus Vieill., Encycl. method, ornith., 1823, vol. 

 3, p. 1273. Based on Wilson: "near the Schuylkill." 



Buteo latissimus (Wils.). Chapman, Handb. birds east. No. 

 Amer., 1895, p. 204; A. K. Fisher, Hawks and owls of U. S., 1893, 

 pi. 10. Egg, Bendire, 1892, vol. 1, pi. 7, fig. 10-13. 



Woodlands, and along streams; nests in trees. 



Me. — Uncommon summer resident. (Mar. 31) April 11-Sept. 

 17. Eggs, May 2-June 12. 



N. H. — Uncommon migrant and summer resident. April 8- 

 Sept. 15. Eggs, May 16. 



Vt. — Uncommon summer resident. April 14-fall. 



Mass. — Uncommon migrant, and in remoter districts, a rare 

 summer resident. April 12-Sept. 30 (Oct. 16). Eggs, May 7-31. 



R. I. — Uncommon migrant and rare summer resident. April- 

 Oct. Eggs, May 15-19. 



Conn. — Uncommon migrant, and rare summer (and ? winter) 

 resident. Eggs, May 3-18. 



193. Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis (Gmelin) Coues. 



American rough -legged hawk; Black hawk. 



Chapman, Handb. birds east. No. Amer., 1895, p. 205; A. K. 

 Fisher, Hawks and owls of U. S. 1893, pi. 11. Egg, Bendire, 1892, 

 vol. 1, pi. 8, fig. 10-12. 



