THE NEW SPORT OF “HAWKING” 
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By May tenth it is the height of the nesting-season for the 
Cooper’s Hawk. This species is preeminently the most 
destructive of the raptorial tribe in the United States, though 
NEST AND EGGS OF COOPER’S HAWK IN CROTCH OF CHESTNUT 
if the Goshawk were more common it would deserve the 
palm. It pounces upon every living thing it meets that is 
not too large for it. Ordinarily wary enough, its dash and 
boldness in pursuit of prey are amazing. Not long ago a 
gentleman called to me as I passed along the village street, 
asking me to come to his hen-house and see a hawk that was 
after his chickens. It was a Cooper’s Hawk, as I had antici- 
