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*neano of riddftneei Fortunately the Goshawk's visits ait: infup > 

 qiimt, but when this bird donapprir it in unimlly in largo numbeito. 

 The last large flight was during the autumn and winter of 1906- 

 1907, at which time the writer shot several of these birds and saw 

 many others. This species of hawk is very fond of the flesh of 

 Ruffed Grouse, and during the above mentioned flight the writer 

 found the remains of several Grouse that had been killed and 

 eaten by this bird. When this hawk appears in the vicinity a 

 systematic campaign of extermination should be waged against it 

 with the shot-gun. 



Foxes in the last decade have become very numerous through- 

 out Massachusetts and other states. Reynard is not however as 

 black as he is sometimes painted. He seems to live on neighborly 

 terms with the Ruffed Grouse, and what few birds of this species 

 he picks up are usually those that have been wounded by and es- 

 caped from the gunner, or some weakling of the covey not strong 

 enough to burst away on whirring wing. When mice and hares 

 are plenty the Fox takes his toll from these. Should Foxes become 

 a menace to the game birds, the shot-gun and hounds, and the 

 steel-trap must be used to reduce their numbers to a safety point. 

 Encourage the hares to increase and you will divert the Fox from 

 preying upon the game birds. 



In many metropolitan suburbs the Crow and the Blue Jay have 

 become both too numerous and too familiar to be tolerated with 

 safety to our more useful birds. They should be systematically 

 "thinned out." Individual Crows develop strong likings for 

 young birds and eggs, particularly when the Crows have a family 

 of their own dependent upon them. During the spring of 1914, a 

 pair of Crows built a nest within a quarter of a mile of my home, 

 and managed to make away with between thirty-five and forty 

 chickens about a week old, before the theft was discovered. These 

 Crows afterwards quietly dangled from the tip of a pole on the edge 

 of the field as a warning to others of their tribe, who might seek 

 to carry on depredations of a like nature. This same season, while 

 journeying by train, I saw a Crow flying along within twenty yards 

 of the car window, with a Quail's egg impaled upon its beak. I 



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