The “ Hen Hawk” aot 
The nest of this hawk is to be found in high trees in 
the deep woods; it is a bulky affair, but quite shallow, 
being composed of sticks and roots often a foot or 
more in length, with a good mixture of coarse grass, 
while the inside has a sparse lining of moss and a 
few feathers. 
One August day, as I was tramping through a 
marshy place in a. piece of woods, I accidentally 
surprised a red-tailed hawk which was probably hunt- 
ing for frogs or other food. Only a few days before, 
I had seen a hawk of this species within a short 
distance of where I surprised this one. On the 
day that I saw the second hawk, in a clearing on the 
edge of the swamp, I came upon a boy setting some 
traps by a stump, and scattering about them the 
waste parts of a fowl and also of a woodchuck. I 
was interested to know what was his object in doing 
this, and he told me that skunks from the neighbor- 
ing woods were troubling his chickens. 
I inquired of him if he had seen any hawks about, 
and why he believed that it was skunks and not hawks 
which had caught his chickens. He answered me 
by saying that as they were taken only at night, it 
could not be the work of hawks, although they were 
plentiful in the swamp. 
From what I had seen of the hawks in this vicinity, 
