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The West Roxbury Hawks showed a very different individu- 

 ality from the above pair. They were quite tame and very 

 noisy, much more local in their habitat, and though they often 

 built in large trees, they never built far from the ground, and 

 always in a tree very easy to climb. 



I first became acquainted with this pair on April 22, 1885. 

 I found their nest, which contained one fresh egg, about 40 

 feet or three-fourths of the way up a small pine, which grew at 

 the edge of, and leaned out over a small pond. 



The female was very tame, and so hard to get off of the nest 

 that pounding had no visible effect, and I was finally compelled 

 to throw sticks at her. She was very vociferous after I had 

 dislodged her, and flew screaming high above my head. 



I came back here on April 25, and procured two handsome 

 eggs, while the female acted as she had three days before. 1 



On April 17, 18S6, I again found this bird's nest, this time 

 in a small hemlock that grew on a ridge about 30 feet high, on 

 the opposite side of this same pond. I procured three fresh 

 eggs, similar to those of the previous year, and also trapped the 

 female Hawk. I tried to get her down the tree alive, but she 

 was too fierce, and I was compelled to shoot her before I could 

 climb near her. 



I did not visit this place either during 1S87 or 1SS8, but know 

 that the male had mated again, as I found the deserted nest of 

 this pair both in 1SS9 and 1S90, and saw and heard both birds 

 often. Both times they had built in a dark swamp, about 

 two hundred yards from where I had previously found the nest, 

 and each time in such easy trees to climb and in such conspicu- 

 ous places that somebody else had got ahead of me. On May 

 26, 1S91, I found the nest of this same pair of birds in this same 

 swamp, and I copy from my notes as follows: lt A nest in a 

 tall large pine, forty feet up, and containing two downy young. 

 They cried just like the old ones, and the female sat around on the 

 neio-hboring trees, and often flew quite close to me. She seemed 



1 The female of this pair was evidently an immature specimen, and the eggs were 

 very small, and the date of their laying was rather late for this species. Having found 

 other nests where similar conditions prevailed, I infer that there is a possibility that 

 voung Hawks may breed a little later than they do when older, and perhaps their first 

 eggs may be smaller. 



