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RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 
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 
below 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 colour, size 
and markings, 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. 
