200 Kennard, Habits of the Red-shouldered Hatvk. \\\\U 



On March 29, 1SS6, I found a nest with two fresh eggs, within 

 50 yards of where the nest had been built in 1SS4. I set traps in 

 the nest, and on April 1, I found the female caught. She had also 

 laid a soft-shelled egg, which showed that my set of two eggs 

 was incomplete. The male mourned the loss of his mate only 

 until he could get another, which he did during the following 

 spring ; and they built again in a pine tree near this same place 

 in 1SS7. This nest was found and robbed by a friend of mine. 



On April 20, 18SS, I got two eggs out of a nest in the crotch 

 of a chestnut tree beside a path about a half of a mile away. It 

 was a full set, as I watched it several days before taking it. The 

 male bird, which I caught but let go again, did some of the 

 setting, and was so small that I was puzzled till I caught him 

 as to his identity. 



On April 9, 18S9, I saw feathers in the above nest, and on this 

 account shinned up to it, only to find the nest empty. About 100 

 yards off, however, I found in a slender oak the bird's real nest 

 with two fresh eggs, and was forced to infer that they had been 

 using nest number one for a resting and feeding place only. As 

 I (.lid not want to 'get left' this way again, I knocked the nest, 

 from which I had just taken the eggs, out of the tree, of which 

 more anon. 



On April 13, 1S90, I found one egg in a nest in a low pine in 

 a dark swamp, about 100 yards from the last nest. I shot the 

 male Hawk as he flew oft", taking him for an instant for a 

 Cooper's Hawk which I knew was breeding somewhere near ; so 

 I was compelled to take the egg, as I doubted whether the female 

 would go on any further with the duties of maternity. 



This nest, by the way, was an old nest, and one in which I 

 had seen feathers two years before. I had then climbed the tree 

 and found some of the feathers and bones of a Partridge, on 

 which one of these Hawks had probably been feeding. 



April 16, 1S91, the female had evidently got a new mate, 

 for I found a set of three eggs in an old nest placed perhaps 

 fortv feet up in the crotch of a tall chestnut, and within 50 feet 

 of the place where I had found their nest in 1SS4. This nest 

 had, I think, been built for a second set, in May, 1S89. It was 

 not there in April of that year, and I found it there that autumn. 

 In 1S90 I had come very near climbing up to it because of 



