V r«g 4 XI ] Kknnakjj. Habitt of //if Red-shouldered Hawk. IOQ 



Brookl ine and West Roxbury, Mass., near the Weld Farm. 

 The West Roxbury Hawks must not get mixed up with the 

 above pair, as they live some two miles away, in a territory of 

 their own, by the side of Charles River. 



What I call the Hammond Street Hawks live invariably on the 

 Newton side of Hammond Street, Brookline, sometimes in New- 

 ton, ;md sometimes on the Brookline side of the boundary line; 

 though never comingtothe Brookline side of Hammond Street, as 

 that side is invariably occupied by what I call the Putterham 

 Hawks. 



I will take up with these Hawks in the above order, leaving 

 the Putterham pair till the last, as they are perhaps of the most 

 interest. 



The Weld Farm Hawks inhabit a territory which is perhaps 

 longer and more rambling in extent than any of the others, and 

 which partly accounts for the fact that my observations of them 

 have been fewer than of the others. They are also the shyest 

 of all my friends, and have invariably built in the hardest trees to 

 climb. They are very quiet, only screaming when it seems 

 absolutely necessary for them to do so, in order to scare up their 

 prey ; and while they have built in almost every case nearer 

 houses than any other pair, they seem to show a much more 

 marked antipathy to coming either near their nest or near any 

 one who is trying to watch them. 



Though I have watched their nests for hours at a time, and 

 until I should have thought their eggs would have spoiled, I 

 have never been able to get a shot at them ; and on only one 

 occasion, when I covered myself up with leaves and sticks, have 

 I known of their coming back to their nest while 1 watched, after 

 once having been disturbed. Then, too, the female invariably 

 got off the nest at my distant approach, and never waited till I 

 pounded on the trunk of the tree, as other Hawks frequently do. 

 Many Hawks, when one is robbing them, will come back and flv 

 around screaming, either in the immediate vicinitv or else high 

 overhead. This pair never went through any such performance, 

 but invariably and quietly disappeared. 



it was on April 23, 18S4, that I discovered my first nest of this 

 pair, placed between 80 and 90 feet from the ground, at the top 

 of a very tall and spindling soft-pine, at the foot of a high hill. 



