110 RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 



In the month of April I shot a female of this species, and the 

 only one I have yet met with, in a swamp, seven or eight miles 

 below Philadelphia. The eggs were, some of them, nearly as 

 large as peas, from which circumstance I think it probable they 

 breed in such solitary parts, even in this state. In colour, size 

 and markings, it differed very little from the male described 

 above. The tail was scarcely quite so black, and the white 

 bars not so pure: it was also something larger. 



