Vol. XI 



1894 



Kennard, Habits of the Red-shouldered Haxvk. 203 



very much worried, particularly when I was wringing the neck 

 of one of the young. His crop and stomach proved to be full of 

 feathers from some small birds, not distinguishable, hair and 

 bones; and besides all this, he had pieces of a frog, one whole 

 mole, and a snake ten inches long, — a moderate lunch for a 

 youngster, who could hardly have been a fortnight old ! He, by 

 the way, was much the larger of the two. May 31, 1891,1 

 returned to this nest and took the remaining young one. He 

 had grown much in five days." 



In fact he who had been the smaller one on the 26th was now, 

 five days later, as much bigger as the other one had been bigger 

 than he. "His crop and stomach contained feathers, hair, 

 bones, etc., besides parts of two frogs, and a mole. No wonder 

 he grew ! I wonder that the Partridge, whose nest I found near 

 the foot of this tree, had been left unmolested !" 



On April 2S, 1892, Mr. N. A. Francis procured three eggs 

 from a nest built by this same pair in the same small swamp in 

 a very large, easily climbed tree, such as they always seemed to 

 show such a preference for. 



In 1S93, though I saw this pair in the vicinity, I was for some 

 reason entirely unable to find a trace of their nest. Perhaps they 

 had taken to a deciduous tree in a very large and adjoining 

 swamp, and were harder to find on this account. 



Here is a pair of Hawks whose individualities are quite dis- 

 tinct from those of the previous pair. Instead of choosing several 

 places distributed over an area of several square miles, they seem to 

 have built almost invariably in a place not one-eighth of a mile 

 square. While the previous pair were wild, shy, and seldom 

 noisy, and built in high trees, either evergreen or deciduous, 

 this pair were comparatively tame and confidential and very 

 noisy, and so far as I know, always chose easily accessible ever- 

 green trees for their nesting, and the female almost always waited 

 till I pounded the tree before departing. 



The Hammond Street Hawks first came to my immediate 

 notice April 17, 1SS4, when I found a set of three fresh eggs in a 

 nest built about 30 feet up a fair sized pine, by the side of a 

 swamp, and in a very conspicuous place. There was nothing 

 unusual about the nest, it being a bulky structure of twigs, 

 leaves, etc., and lined with fresh hemlock boughs and strips of 



