Buteo platypterus. Bethel, Maine. 1907 July 18-22 A pair of Broad-winged Hawks were haunting the swampy woods below the orchard where I saw them repeatedly and often heard their shrill cries. Once both birds were in sight at once, soaring above the trees. Whenever I saw them on wing they were pursued and harried by one or more Crows who attacked them after the man- er of Kingbirds rising above and swooping down at them, occasion- ally picking their heads or backs. The Hawks bore this persecution with admirable equanimity paying little or no heed to it unless actually struck by the Crows when they would sometimes change their course or even throw themselves quickly upward or to one side with an abrupt jerk. The ordinary flight of the Broad-wing is smooth and graceful if somewhat slow. It can glide through the densest woods, on set wings, with remarkable ease and swiftness. It soars in circles, high in air, quite as impressively as the Red-tailed or Red-shouldered Hawks, but rather less often, I think. It is a much less wide ranger than either of the species just mentioned. Indeed it seldom goes more than a mile and often not half-a-mile from its nest or favorite roosting place, in pursuit of food. All this I have noted at Bethel during the past few days as well as on previous occasions at Concord and elsewhere.