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WILD WINGS 
YOUNG SHARr-SUlNNED HAWK, RAISED FROM THE NEST 
woods, and goes roaring down a series of cascades. On the 
seventh of Mav, as I was following up the brook along the 
cascades, a Broad-winged Hawk dew out from some tall hem¬ 
lock and deciduous trees bordering the brook on the other 
side, and circled three times over me, in a rather threatening 
manner, I thought, returning then to alight in a tall oak, 
where it sat quietly. 
I was convinced that the bird was nesting, so I crossed the 
brook by a bridge farther up, and reached the spot. The 
hawk was not to be seen, but I saw an old squirrels’ nest, 
forty feet up a chestnut-tree, that had some fresh sticks laid 
across the top, which made me confident that the hawk was 
