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" Crocker Leonard " pair were shy, tenacious of their adopted 

 pine grove, nesting rather low, and laying late. My " Mur- 

 dock Street" pair were the first of the season to breed, 

 having eggs usually by the fifth of April. They built high 



YOUNG RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (FLORIDA) 



up, and had much of their white down clinging about the 

 nest. Then there was the " Hermann " pair, the shyest of 

 them all, but which atoned for their lack of cordiality by 

 laying three most beautifully clouded eggs each season. My 



