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long, stringy bark. The female has proved to be just an average 

 Hawk not especially wild, and yet knowing how to keep her 

 distance, always waiting till I have approached quite near the 

 tree before flying off, and never waiting till I pounded on the 

 trunk, as the West Roxbury birds did. 



On April 23, 1SS5, I found the nest of this pair built near the 

 top of an enormous hemlock nearly 60 feet from the ground, on a 

 hillside beside a swamp, nearly a mile from the scene of last 

 year's capture, and it was an exceptional case for this pair. I 

 never knew them to go so far again, and I never knew them to 

 build in any but small trees in very open woods, except on this 

 one occasion. 



On May 23, 1885, just one month later, I found the second nest 

 of this bird in the top crotch of a small slender oak, about 40 

 feet from the ground, right beside the pine in which the nest had 

 been built the previous year. There were three boys, each doing 

 his best to climb up to the nest, without avail. I felt my honor 

 at stake ; and so, though I was clad in my Sunday best, I climbed 

 that tree and got three fresh eggs for my pains. 



April 15, 1SS6, I found this pair of Hawks apparently building 

 a nest in a slender red maple in sight of the street, and not far 

 from the scene of my last find. It proved, however, that they 

 were obtaining sticks from an old nest, and were building three- 

 fourths of a mile away, on the other side of the marsh, in a low 

 pine tree. This nest was too near a Gypsy encampment, and I 

 procured no eggs. 



April 14, iSSS, I went up to a Hawk's nest in this same 

 locality, built in the crotch of a slender chestnut tree in a very 

 conspicuous place, beside a path. It contained two Hawk's eggs, 

 and one broken hen's egg. As the set was evidently imperfect, 

 and as I did not care for the two remaining eggs on that account, 

 I placed two steel traps in the bottom of the nest and waited 

 around for three-quarters of an hour, with no result. I returned 

 on the next day, however^ and found both Hawks had been 

 caught by their legs. I was unable to get them alive, and keep 

 my own skin whole, and so was forced to shoot them. 



I found out afterwards that Mr. J. A. Lowell of Chestnut Hill, 

 Mass., had taken two eggs from this nest on April 7, and left 

 two hen's eggs in their place, thus making the total number of 

 the set four. 



