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barn near Green Ridge, in which he said a "white owl" had 

 been seen a few days before. Upon investigation, I found, on 

 the floor of this barn a number of pellets, which, from their size 

 and consistency, I am practically sure were disgorged by a barn 

 owl; but though I have looked in this barn many times since, I 

 have never seen any owl in it, or found any more pellets. From 

 this I concluded that this " white owl " may have shared the 

 deplorable fate of most of the others about which I have heard. 



Red-shouldered Hawks, "Buteo Hneatus. 



During 1908 we actually found the nests of only two pairs of 

 red-shouldered hawks, mainly because of the lack of sufficient 

 time to search for more. One of the two pairs found breeding 

 last year near Eltingville, nested again within one hundred and 

 fifty yards of their old home. The new nest was thirty-five or 

 forty feet up in a red oak, Quercus rubra, and, on April 5, con- 

 tained three eggs, on which the old bird had not yet begun to 

 sit. By April 17 the number of eggs had been increased to four, 

 and incubation was under way. 



A month later, May 17, there were two downy young hawks 

 in this nest, but one was fully twice the size of the other, the 

 difference being undoubtedly due to age. A few cedar twigs, and 

 sprays of green leaves, as usual, lay on the nest. The latter I 

 .brought home, and Mr. C. L. Pollard identified them for me. 

 One was silver maple, Acer saccharinum and had fruit on it, one 

 was red maple, Acer rubrum, two pin oak, Quercus palustris, and 

 three black birch, Betula lenta. 



Three days later I noticed that the primary quills were begin- 

 ning to sprout on the wings of the larger of the two young hawks, 

 and this one now sat up and gave a scream of discontent, resemb- 

 ling the ordinary " kee-pou " of grown up red-shoulders. A 

 fresh assortment of leafy twigs, mainly maples, again adorned 

 the nest. 



On June 7 the larger of the young hawks had a brown back 

 and streaked breast, with wings from the carpus to the tips of 



