A Third New England Specimen of Swainson’s Hawk ( Buteo swain- 
soni). — Mr. E. S. Bowler has just sent me a Swainson’s Hawk, taken at 
Gouldsboro’, Maine, Sept. 15, 18S6, by Mr. E. Gordon. It is a young bird 
of the melanistic type, but not wholly black. The species is known to have 
occurred only twice before in New England, both times in Massachusetts 
— Salem, winter of 1871-72 (Allen, Bull. Essex Inst., X, 1878, 22) ; Way- 
land, Sept. 12, 1876 ( Brewster , Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, III, 1878,39). — 
William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. At&i April 1887# ^/(oO 
A Second Maine (and Fourth New England) Specimen of Swain- 
son’s Hawk (Buteo swainsont) . — Through the kind offices of Mr. 
Manly Hardy I have just secured a Swainson’s Hawk, which was killed 
about eight miles from Bangor in the town of Glenburn, Maine, May 19, 
1888. Like the Gouldsboro (Maine) specimen which I obtained last year,* 
it is of the melanistic type, but not entirely black. It was sent in the 
flesh to Mr. S. L. Crosby of Bangor, and was examined by Mr. Hardy 
before the skin was removed.— William Brewster, Cambridge , Mass. 
*Auk, IV, 1887, P* 160. 
Auk, V, Oct,, 1888. p. HZ 4 • 
In October I found Newell mounting a 
Swainson’s Hawk killed here. Something 
new for so far east. I bought it of the 
owner. It is in nice plumage. Newell’s 
shop is full of Deer, Caribou and Moose. 
Hope that he may do well. G. A. B. 
Calais, Maine. 
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