The red-tailed hawk dropping from his aerial pathway 



Deerfield, Massachusetts, and also on the precipi- 

 tous ledges of Monument Mountain in Stockbridge 

 (the mountain celebrated by Bryant in a poem), 

 there have been duck-hawks' nests for over a gener- 

 ation. The nesting-place on Monument can only 

 be reached, as a rule, with _an Alpine rope, and 

 since the eggs are laid before the ist of May, while 



