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pressed pleasure, nor showed displeasure upon my coming 
near it, though it would make itself felt when one attempted 
to handle it. It never, however, used its claws with the same: 
spirit as the Accipiter. I could handle the latter with im- 
punity after it grew to know me. Strangers, it fought with 
spirit and resisted all their attempts ‘at familiarity. The Buteo 
regarded all alike, seemingly neither as friends nor foes.”— 
Roddy. 
“A trio of fledglings, which came into my possession, de- 
voured almost everything offered them, even cooked beef. It 
was really amusing to watch them. One, who was the strong- 
est, asserted his powers by gathering everything to himself, at 
which he was kept very busy, as his weaker nest-mates would 
slyly purloin a portion, even at the risk of a flap over the head. 
They were always quarrelsome and never satisfied.’—Preston. 
“They were very noisy and resented being handled very 
much. though among themselves, good nature prevailed.” 
(Three young 3-4 weeks old.)—Shufeldt. 
We kept a family of four young for two weeks or until 
three had disappeared one at a time down the throat of the 
largest. He was a regular cannibal—Isaac E. Hess ms. 
Some ten years ago we took one from a nest and kept it sev- 
eral years in a cage in the yard (winter in the basement.) It 
was not at all wild when’ one approached the cage and took 
food out of one’s hand. It knew all those that belonged to the 
house. When a stranger entered the yard it always uttered 
its “pewee,’ but never when one of the family entered. It 
was as good as a watch dog and was particularly loud when 
a begger came sneaking around the house into the back yard 
when he had to pass his cage to go to the kitchen door.—O, 
Widmann ms. 
My first captive was a female raised from the nest. I had 
named it “Buteo.”” When three months old I considered it 
quite as able to take care of itself as if it had the teachings of 
the parent. At this age it frequently uttered the single sylla— 
bled “flight” cry, harsher at the end, and which I interpreted as 
the hunger cry, as it was perched upon or just above the feed- 
