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the primaries about seven inches long, while the smaller one was 

 just getting a few dark feathers in the scapular tracts. The ears 

 of both were inhabited by white fly larvae, the smaller hawk, 

 which I examined particularly, having about four in each ear. 

 Mr. W. De W. Miller, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, tells me that he has found such parasites in the ears of 

 young broad-winged, Buteo platypterus, and Cooper's hawks, 

 Accipiter cooperi. In the nest were some small white and brown 

 feathers from young chickens, and some pellets containing snake 

 scales and insect remains, as well as feathers and hair. 



The elder of the two young hawks must have left soon after 

 this visit; but, on June- 21, the younger one was still sitting on 

 a branch beside the nest. It could scarcely fly at all, and I 

 brought it down for Mr. Lang and Mr. Cleaves to photograph. 

 In the nest were some feathers of young white and Plymouth 

 Rock chickens, a pellet containing the skull of a short-tailed 

 shrew, Blarina brevicauda, and some feathers of a young chewink, 

 Pipilo erythrophthalmus, and of a sparrow, Melospiza 

 mclodia ( ?). 



After posing for its picture, the young hawk was left in a 

 small tree. 



The second red-shouldered hawks' nest was found in some 

 woods south of Richmond, where no nest was discovered in 1907. 

 It was about thirty-five feet up in a chestnut tree, and held three 

 eggs. The old hawk, though it flew off at my approach, was 

 very bold, swooping at me several times as I sat in the tree. The 

 nest was some distance out from the trunk, and not very securely 

 placed. At my next visit, May 3, I found that it had been dis- 

 lodged, whether by human agency or not I could not tell, and 

 was lying on the ground beneath. No trace of eggs was 

 discernible. 



On May 10 Mr. William T. Davis and I found another red- 

 shouldered hawk's nest in the same woods, which, I am satisfied, 

 was the second attempt of the pair of hawks just mentioned. 

 The nest was now built about thirty-five feet up in a scarlet oak. 



