CORRESPONDENCE. 
Red-tailed Hawk . (0. and 0. IX. P 57), D. D. Stone , 
Oswego, N. y., writes: “My experience differs from that 
of J. M. W. I have taken a good many sets of Red-tailed 
Hawks, and, except when the first set had been taken, have 
never found a set of two eggs that were at all advanced in 
incubation, and three has been the number with me, and in 
one case four.” See Dr. Gibbs, p 67 of this number. 
O.&O. IX, .Jun.1884. p. '74 , 
The Spicer Ledges b oreali s which, April 22, rt 
1888, gave the green runt recorded by Mr. 
Norris in O. & O. for April, 1889, had a pair of €. 
eggs, normal in size, but preserving the rare X I V *t« l 
tint, in an example of the paper-shell 
This aged female, escaping traps and cold lead ' /v . & < . 
in a miraculous way, has bred here continu- 
ously since 1875, according to my data, alter- 
nating between two trees in the heart of the 
woods 40 rods apart. She has for that length 
of time given abundant evidence of being the 
self-same hawk, and local tradition has it that 
one of these two old leaning chestnuts on the 
ledges for thirty years has held a Kedtail’s 
nest. 
a- 7wlz tv «- / hot- tcA^0c6 
ttci r * 
CP- ip. XI. fern. /W/t - /■?. 
Pick©HS Co* 9* Buteo borealis. Red-tailed Hawk. — R ather common and gen- 
So. Carolina, erally distributed. S.Caroli 
lna - Loomis, Ank.VH. Jan. 1890. p. Sfc. 
242. Albinism — Buteo borealis , Vieillot. — Red-tailed Buzzard. By 
John W. Shorten. Ibid., p. 53;— The “endre plumage white as snow.” 
y®8r., OiEQni. Soc« N,H a 1882 
-The “entire plumage white as snow.” 
Notes on the nesting of various species 
season of 4.„i t 
V Bute °s- % J. M. W[hipple]. Zbid., P pp!z l 7 ~ l I i8— 
nestmg of various species near Norwich, Conn., during the 
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