1873. 
309 . 
Butoo ponnsylvanicus 
Maina (Lako Umbagog). 
Aug. 12.;' Shot afi adult bird^ moulting and in Very ragged 
plumage, on the heavily timbered banks of Cambridge Ri¬ 
ver above the dam. 
16. I 
Shot a young bird in perfect fall plumage on the 
bank of the Androscoggin at Rrrol. 
1876. 
'ay 29. 
Juno 14 
17. 
Shot a male v/hich vras sitting on the top of a tall 
stub in the woods. It uttered repeatedly a shrill pier- 
coing Wjiistle sound ng like a cree—eee e, creo—oo_p; some¬ 
times simply cr^-cr^^. In the f ir s t 'ins tance with a 
decided accent on the last part of the utterance, v/’hich 
also ran up the scale. ’ 
Started a pair from the ground in the odp^e of the 
woods bordering the Abbott clearing. They alighted on 
the tops of neighboring stubs, keeping up their shrill 
whistling cry as I approached. Without the advantap^e of 
any cover whatever i easily got within forty yards of 
them and shot the male. I often see these liawks sail¬ 
ing in pairs high up in the sky almost invariably utter¬ 
ing uhoir unm.istakablo note. The specimen killed to¬ 
day would not have bred apparently for sometime. Its 
stomach was filled vdth the bones of small mammals and 
fragmentary remains of Coleoptera . 
A hav/ks nest in the ^ork of a birch about fifty foot 
above the ground and evidently new and occupied, proba- 
bly belonging to this species although no bird ivas s-en 
near it. 
1879, 
May 29. 
Juno2l3. 
"1880. 
’ay 22, 
!! A male shot on Cambridge River, just below B Meadow 
: ad t.io irides yellowish-white with an ashy tinge. His 
stomach contained the remains of a red squirrel. 
Several pairs seen on Cambridge River and a fine 
adult male shot on the top of a fir stub, its crop and 
stomacn were empty; irides, pale brownigh-whi to 
. 4 .. • . , inoir snrill ^-iLOo’o’e, ca-heo’e’e’p 
IS unmistakable. ™ ~ -- 
24 . 
Shot one in the ordinary f^ plumage. It was -it 
ting on a stub over a wood path with numLous smairblrd^ 
dashing_about it and making a great out cry. Unfort;- 
natoly it v/as too badly shot to be preserved. 
