RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 



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In the month of April I shot a female of this species, and the 

 only one I have yet met with, in a swamp seven or eight miles be- 

 low Philadelphia. The eggs were, some of them, nearly as large 

 as peas, from which circumstance I think it probable they breed 

 in such solitary parts even in this state. In color, size and mark- 

 ings it differed very little from the male described above. The 

 tail was scarcely quite so black, and the white bars not so pure: 

 it was also something larger. 



