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differs quite naturally from typical instances of the Red-tailed Hawk, the 

 nest being placed at so low an elevation and without the commanding view 

 of surrounding country that the latter species prefers. The eggs, too, are 

 readily distinguishable from a typical series of Redtails. Both these vari- 

 ations ma}' of course be exceptional, as it is believed that we are here deal- 

 ing with but one pair of birds. 



The question of Mr. Brown's identification of these hawks naturally 

 arises. For two seasons he took them to be Rough-legged Hawks in the 

 dark plumage; but later, the birds being rather unsuspicious and permitting 

 fairly close approach, he convinced himself that they were without the 

 feathered tarsus. Later, either in the spring of 1902 or 1903, a hunter shot 

 one of the pair from the nest and a few days afterward Mr. Brown learned 

 of the fact and was fortunately able to find and examine the bird, It was 

 much decomposed but still sufficiently intact to show that it had every essen- 

 tial feature of Harlan's Hawk in the melanistic phase of plumage. 



