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of 2 hours and 20 minutes; on the 16th 1 hour and 23 minutes 
out of 1 hour and 50 minutes; on the 17th, 56 minutes out of 2 
hours and 15 minutes; and on the 18th, 13 minutes out of 1 hour. 
On the 21st the young left the nest. The parents at this nest 
were exceeedingly business-like in the care of their young. They 
paid little or no attention to the blind and carried on their activ- 
ities in a regular stereotyped style. Both had a regular method 
of approach to the nest. 
BREEDING OF THE GOSHAWK 
( A cc ipter atr i cap ill u s ) 
At 
Petersham, Worcester County, 
And Other Bird Notes from P 
Massachusetts, 
ETERSII AM 
P»Y J. A. FARLEY 
I take pleasure in reporting the breeding of the Goshawk 
(A. < itricapillus ) last spring in Petersham, Massachusetts. This 
is the first record of the breeding of the Goshawk (A. atricapil- 
lus) in the state. Such an event has long been looked for as in- 
dividuals of the species have been seen in summer more than 
once in the past in Massachusetts. The last summer record of 
the species was by Mr. Gerald H. Thayer who saw an immature 
Goshawk, August 15, 1900, in Berkshire County this state. (Auk, 
XIX, 1902, p. 296) 
The two young birds in the Petersham Goshawk’s nest were 
taken alive, in the down, May 22, 1902, by Mr. J. Nelson Spaeth 
of the Harvard Forest at Petersham. The nest had been report- 
ed to Mr. Spaeth who visited it first on May 20 when the two, 
downy, peeping young could be seen from the ground. The nest 
was high up in a tall white pine, and was a large affair composed 
of sticks mainlv. The startled adult hawk betraved the nest by 
flying from it. Only one adult hawk was seen and this bird 
uttered shrill cries in the woods when the nest was climbed to, 
but did not come near. The two young Goshawks in their natal 
down were photographed May 26; and again June 5, in their 
juvenal plumage. The first picture shows well the mixture of 
natal down and juvenal feathers sprouting through it — particu- 
larly the quills and other feathers of the wing; the second, the 
juvenal plumage with some of the natal down still adhering, 
especially on and around the head. One of these young hawks 
became partly paralyzed and died some time later, but the other 
lived until July 12. 
