279 
1868, 
Paleo sparverius. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
Apr. 11. 
Pound the remains of a Pox Sparrov/ and soon after 
came across a Sparrow Hawk which was probably the murder- 
er. 
• 15 . 
R.Deane shot a female; stomach contents: small 
snake, grasshoppers, and other insetts, but no birds. 
The feathers on the top of its head 'were glued together 
by tar, v^hich it had probably got by trying to catch an 
insect stuck to a tarred apple tree. 
1869. 
Apr, 26. 
Sav/ one to-day. 
1871. 
Apr, 15. 
Saw a beautiful male in the field where I alv^ays 
see one or more every season. He was very shy perching ' 
on the tops of some tall elm trees. 
1872. 
Apr. 5. 
Male at Grantville (Henshaw), 
1876. 
May 11, 
One skimming -over the Fresh Pond marhses this morn¬ 
ing. 
Aug. 7. 
One on Arlington Heights glided pasttwith great 
swiftness and alighted in a wind cherry tree. 
