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NEWS FROM THE BIRDS. 



The red-shouldered hawk. 



I bore it home to my 

 study, and consulting my 

 bird manual, found the bird 

 to be the red-shouldered 

 hawk — a very fine specimen. 

 His shoulders, or wing cov- 

 erts, were a rusty red or 

 brown ; his lower parts beau- 

 tifully striped and mottled with rufous and 



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