Breeding of the Goshawk 
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On the evening of July 1 I heard a White-throated Sparrow 
(Z. albicollis) singing in the spruce swamp in the rear of the 
Harvard Forest dormitory. Professor Fisher lias noted this sum- 
mer three other singing “Peabody Birds” at widely-separated 
points in town. Last year (1921) the species was rather com- 
mon in Petersham and bred near the Forest headquarters — as 
it did this season. 
There was a breeding pair of J uncos (J. hi) emails) this year 
near Professor Fisher’s house and the species was noted also in 
1921 in Petersham. Professor Fisher found in 1921 a Junco’s 
nest in the adjoining town of Hubbardston. 
The large and well-wooded town of Petersham lies in the 
northwestern quarter of Worcester County. Like most of this 
elevated part of the state the town’s surface presents a series 
of broad ridges whose trend is north and south, the general level 
of the ridge-tops being 1,100 feet while the intervening valleys 
are at 700 to 800 feet. It is part of the central plateau or upland 
which stretches across Massachusetts from the New Hampshire 
to the Connecticut state lines. The famous Harvard Forest in 
Petersham is in three separate tracts which total 2,068 acres of 
which 1,775 acres are forested. There is much white pine in 
this large acreage as elsewhere in this and adjoining towns. 
There is some spruce in swamps in the Harvard Forest, the 
largest swamp being in the “Meadow Water” tract ; there is a 
smaller spruce swamp in rear of the Harvard Forest dormitory. 
Besides white pine there is a good deal of hemlock in town, and 
some of this timber in the Harvard Forest is old and very large. 
In the Forest also there are still a few small pieces of virgin 
timber. Some of the finest white pines, both as to number and 
size of trees, in the state today grow in the Harvard Forest. 
There are hundreds of other acres of woods in the town 
which also contain much white pine. Lovers of trees will be 
glad to know that the timber in the Harvard Forest is being 
handled in the most intelligent and progressive way, and that 
the land in no case is ever denuded. There are some large wood- 
land holdings outside the Harvard Forest tracts, which are in 
the hands of owners who appreciate both the aesthetic and com- 
mercial value of forest trees, and hence do not carry out waste- 
ful cutting methods on their properties. Thanks to the policy 
of Harvard University and of these individual owners, it results 
that in Petersham there is a great forested area of the utmost 
