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black sharp claws. Its tail with a dark bar near edge 

 beneath. In hand I found it had the white spots on 

 scapulars of the F.fuscus, and had not the white bars 

 on tail of the F. Pennsylvanicus.^ It also had the fine 

 sharp shin. 



[zS'ee also under Blackbirds, p. 264.] 



cooper's hawk 



May 29, 1860. We proceeded to the Cooper's 

 hawk nest in an oak and pine wood (Clark's) north of 

 Ponkawtasset. I found a fragment of one of the eggs 

 which he ^ had thrown out. Farmer's egg^ by the way, 

 was a dull or dirty white, i. e. a rough white with large 

 dirty spots, perhaps in the grain, but not surely, of a 

 regular oval form and a little larger than his marsh 

 hawk's egg. I climbed to the nest, some thirty to thirty- 

 five feet high in a white pine, against the main stem. 

 It was a mass of bark -fibre and sticks about two and a 

 half feet long by eighteen inches wide and sixteen high. 

 The lower and main portion was a solid mass of fine 

 bark-fibre such as a red squirrel uses. This was sur- 

 rounded and surmounted by a quantity of dead twigs 

 of pine and oak, etc., generally the size of a pipe-stem 

 or less. The concavity was very slight, not more than 

 an inch and a half, and there was nothing soft for a 

 lining, the bark-fibres being several inches beneath the 

 twigs, but the bottom was floored for a diameter of six 

 inches or more with flakes of white oak and pitch pine 



^ [The broad-winged hawk, now called Buteo platypterus.] 

 " [Jacob Farmer, who had found the nest and shot the female hawk 

 May 16, saving one of the eggs.] 



