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Accipiter cooperi. — A young Cooper’s Hawk I took from 
the nest when quite small, probably not more than two weeks 
after being hatched. It was without any difficulty reared to full 
size ; indeed, to more than full size, for the abundance of good 
tood and favorable conditions made it attain a more than ordinary 
size. In length it grew two and a half inches, and in alar expanse 
tour inches, greater than the largest specimen in my collection, 
or of which I had any record. 
It was a great eatei. When six weeks old it ate nine English 
Sparrows ( Passer domesticus) and a common mouse (A/us 
?nusculus') in one day ; and ate on an average eight Sparrows a 
day from that time until it was ten weeks old. 
At first I removed the remiges and rectrices and some of the 
other stiffer feathers of the birds I fed it. But when it had at- 
tained considerable size I gave it its food without such prepara- 
tion. L he bird ate them, feathers and all. This, however, 
influenced the amount it ate, — as one would naturally suppose, 
since these larger feathers filled up the crop and stomach, some- 
times giving the bird trouble to eject them when the digestible 
portions had been absorbed. After attaining full growth it 
gradually came to be more choice in the selection of food, and 
always removed all of the larger feathers. 
The bird became very much attached to me. and even when 
it could fly and was allowed its liberty did not leave, but returned 
every few hours for its food, which I always liberally provided. 
How long it would have continued to do this I do not know, as 
the experiment ended with its death. It was shot by one who 
did not know it was my pet. 
In eating the bird tore its food to pieces with the bill, nearly 
always beginning at the entrails. It almost always seemed 
to relish the intestines more than any other part of the bird or 
animal, sometimes eating only this part and leaving the rest. 
When the bird or animal was still warm and the blood therefore 
uncoagulated, it tore it open and apparently bathed the bill 
in the blood and the visceral juices. It apparently sucked up 
these fluids in order to allay thirst. But I invariably found it 
refuse water,— in this respect acting quite differently from the 
Cathartes aura , which drank water freely. 
It 1 ejected cold and still birds which had lain a day or more, 
especially when abundance of food was furnished. Perhaps this 
is owing to the coagulated condition of the blood and the drying 
up of the visceral juices, of both of which it appeared to be so 
fond. 
It made no sounds to express pleasure or displeasure during 
captivity, but when free and flying made the sounds common to 
the adults of this species. 
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Auk, V, July, 1888. p. ' V £ A*/ 7. 
Pickens Co. 
SO. Carolina. 
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?P. 3k 
8. Accipiter cooperi. Cooper’s Hawk. ‘Chicken Hawk.’ ‘Blue- 
tailed Hawk.’ — About the settlements, apparently as plentiful as else- 
where in the State. During the latter part of my last wish one .harassed 
the chickens daily at the house where I was stopping. 
286. Bird Notes from Virginia. By W. T. Allen. Ibid., pp. 20, 21. 
— On the nesting pf several species, and the capture of a Cooper’s Hawk l/bf. vT 
with a"“ large splifi ter , . . . through the fleshy part of the wing near the 
shoulder.” 
Accipiter cooperi. Cooper’s Hawk. — Although resident through the 
•M * ' TT A P ine belt ’ this Hawk is more common in the lower country, breeding 
Mountain Hir^s abundantlv in the woode d cations of the foot-hills. Mearne, Auk.Vll. Jan. 1890. p.JV 
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