Anderson, Nesting Habits of Krider's Hawk. 



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to belong to the variety Icridevii. Climbing tlie forty-eight feet intervening 

 between the gronnd and the nest, I found it to contain three quite heavily 

 marked eggs. The Hawks both soared high overhead screaming, but were Very 

 wary, and after waiting half an hour vainly hoping to obtain a specimen, 1 left 

 the place, returning about six hours afteirward. As I was crawling through 

 a barbed- wire fence about a rod from the tree, the Hawk darted off the nest, 

 and as she soared away I fired' both barrels of the gun and she sailed down at 

 an acute angle, being stone dead when picked up. This Hawk measured : L. 

 22, W. 15?^, T. 9J^. The stomach was entirely empty. The three eggs were 

 slightly incubated. The nest was lined with wPiat looked like old nests of 

 Yellow Warblers and the like, hempen fibres, hair, etc., also a green Poplar 

 twig. 



The accompanying photo- 

 graph is a vieivv of the nest taken 

 froni the ground on February 22, 

 1896, at which time it contained 

 three eggs of the Great Horned 

 Owl. The picture shows the 

 height to which the writer had 

 climbed (aboiit 36 feet from the 

 ground) before the old Owl' 

 would fly from the nest. 



On the same day I took 

 another set of their eggs from a 

 nest 35 feet up in- a Black Oak ' 

 tree. The nest \<'as an unusually ' 

 large one, nearly three feet 

 across and two feet high, cdn'i- 

 posed of 'sticks and twigs of Oak' 

 and Poplar (principally thelatteV)' 

 and lined with bark and corii- 

 husks and some green Poplar 

 sprigs. The hollow of the nest ' 

 was about five inches deep. The 

 three eggs were pale bluish, 

 nearly immarked and slightly 

 incubated. The Hawk left the 

 nest as I came near, was soon' 

 joined by her mate and they flew 

 overhead frequently uttering a' 

 shriir "scree-ee. " They would 

 occasionally light, in' trees, but' I 

 could not come very near to them. 

 A peculiarity of this species 

 is a fondness for hayiiig green 

 leafy twigs in the nest (especially 

 twigs of Cottonwood and- \Vhite 



