1874. 
Butoo borealis. 
Middlesex County, Mass, 
(Oct.17) 
1875. 
Apr, 20. 
30. 
They are beginning to appear in their old haunts. 
Maynard has twenty-two alive all caught in steel 
traps by Perham at Tunhsboro. They sit in rows on 
some-polfts in the room where they are confined and are 
very peaceable never quarreling and frequently sitting 
on each others backs. The only noise they make is a 
scarcely audible v/hining whistle. Two that I brought 
home v/ould eat nothing and I finally set 6hem free. 
They flew but a short distance and alighted on one of 
our cherry trees, 
A pair in Lincoln, in Oak woods where they probably 
had a nest. 
1876. 
Apr, 26. 
May 
29. 
1880. 
Nov. 27, 
Visited the Oak grove on Rock Meadow v/here I found 
the nest last year, but it had been pulled down and proba 
bljf robbed-, ^ saw the birds there a short time 
A male in Lincoln sitting on nearly the same trww 
where I saw one last yearj as i approached he rose high 
in air and sailed for a long time overhead but I could 
not find the nest, 
A large coal black Hawk, which I saw in Lincoln was 
certainly not an A^.hibutep. and I think must have been a 
mulanistic example of this species, to which its large 
size, geeneral shape, and flight seemed to refer it 
I had a good view of it for it passed very near me. 
Saw two sitting together in a living heftlock (Lin- 
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