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“ Crocker Leonard ” pair were shy, tenacious of their adopted 
pine grove, nesting rather low, and laying late. My “ Mur¬ 
dock Street ” pair were the first of the season to breed, 
having eggs usually by the fifth of April. They built high 
YOUNG RED-SUOULDERED HAWK (FLORIDA) 
up, and had much of their white down clinging about the 
nest. Then there was the “ Hermann ” pair, the shyest of 
them all, but which atoned for their lack of cordiality by 
laying three most beautifully clouded eggs each season. My 
