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they been small Sparrows, the nest would doubtless have been near the plum 

 bushes where they came to expostulate with me; but, to large Hawks, the matter 

 of a few acres between the enemy and the nest is of small consequence. They 

 patrol a large block. The nest being made on the ground instead of in the 

 inaccessible top of a high tree, as are those of most large Hawks, Circus has 

 good reason to police its neighborhood. 



MARSH HAWK 

 Photographed by H. and E. Pittman, Wauchope, Saskatchewan 



The nest was on the outer edge of the silver-leaf basin — the last of the 

 beautiful silvery bushes were a few feet away — and it lay on the ground so well 

 hidden by green snowberry bushes that a white twist of cotton was used 

 to mark it. Parting the encircUng bushes, I looked in upon the downy nest- 

 lings with delight. It was my first Marsh Hawk's nest, and I was not too late ! 

 Five downy nestlings lay on a thick mattress of dead grass, whose color they 



