Melanistic Buteo 3 Burdus migratorius just 4 egg fulls. Moton. Sycor. Gen. or Dir'd Mortaries- forlornest- the last 2? fledgls White erythropt, Lord & Someter Monday Notes on Bubo Virginicus- just off gray against May 1 Clear and very cold with N.W. wind. Max temperature 40°. Rose early and out Shape at his house by appointment. Drove up to Winoska with him and visited the swamp when the air looked for the great horned owl's nest in March. Hunted the whole place very thoroughly for hawks nests but did not see an egg all day though a pair of Buteo lineatus were hanging about the place and by this persistent dogging of our footsteps convinced us that they had a nest somewhere in the vicinity. The 6 cans overhead a number of times and I had one very fair shot at him but the sun being too high on badly that I missed. Saw one of the Buteos then's apparently and I fired a long shot at him without effect. He was followed by a mob of crows as usual & was excessively dry. A number of pellets that we found in his heart sack (known size) one of them was composed entirely of shanks hair and bones among the latter the claws of the front feet being all present. Saw also an Accipiter fusca, and a large hawk coal black. The latter was emphatically not An Archibuteo and I think it must have been a melanistic Buteo borealis as it was very large & its flight etc identical with that Grecis. It passed my guard I had a good view of it. Shot two Vireo solitaries & two Herinda's possomus. Then was a general shot of D. Sotterius and F. shot a 6' Pjilo, O. coracina at palmarum still abundant. Sayornis in small companies & apparently not much just. I found a nest of Tundrus mig. with 4 egg fulls.