Obci m#**T Berkshire 
ttr ll2i J<I.. 17-20, ■«». VI. 
4, Circus hudsonius. Marsh Hawk.— Two seen. 
WT T.m iaRO.D.ei;4 
General Notes. 
Stray Notes from vicinity of Mnskeget 
Island, Mass, George H.Mackay. 
Circus hudsonius. — Muskeget Island, March 26, 1S93, I saw- a Marsh 
Hawk in the red plumage, apparently flying on migration northward, at 
an elevation of about ninety feet. 
Auk 2I.Oot. 18SS p 370. 
'^S^nter Birds in Sonth-eastern Mass. 
Harry G. White 
7. The Marsh Haxok. Anotlier unexpected 
fact which was demonstrated by the “Bach- 
elder blanks,” is the presence of the Harrier, 
as a regular and common winter resident on the 
Cape. Mr. Small reported three birds on as 
many days in December, at Highland Light 
eight, during January, three being seen during a 
single day ; and nine for the month of February. 
Compared with the numbers recorded on the 
three preceeding months at the same station, 
the results are very satisfactory, as the 
following table shows: 
NO. OF MAKSn HAWKS IN FALI. AND WINTlili. 
Isi Month. 2d Month. 3d Mmiih. Total A'e. 
! Autumn, 22 14 24 50 
Winter, 3 8 9 20 
Judging from the totals for the different 
S seasons, as hero computed, wo find that the 
; Hawks are only reduced in numbers to one 
third in winter time and are still left rather 
common than otherwise, as Hawks go, and 
' certainly more plenty than we would naturally 
' expect from our knowledge of this particular 
i species as a winter resident of Massachusetts. 
I also suspect that the number of Harriers 
recorded at Highland Light during the three 
autumnal months is fconsiderable above the 
average of most Massachusetts localities, as 
the following notes tend to show: 
During the time that sixty Marsh Hawks 
were recorded at North Truro, only four were 
seen at Wood’s Holl and none at all at Taunton, 
so that if we judge the abundance of that 
' bird as a winter resident on Cape Cod, by the 
' numbers present at other localities during the 
I fall migration when Hawks as a class are the 
' most common, they may really be said to be 
abundant. This last comparison I only give as 
provisional, as my notes on the coraparitive 
abundance of the Marsh Hawk are as yet too 
inextensive to serve as a basis for the deduc- 
tion of very accurate conclusions. 
Winter Firds of Cape Cod, Mass. 
Ealph Hoffmann. 
Circus hudsonius. Marsh Hawk. — Two were seen between Sandwich 
and Barnstable, Dec. 31, 1894. 2£II, April, 1895, p, 'S'®. 
0.& O.V 0 I.I 7 , June, 1892 p.83 
