Accipiter atrioapillus . 
Ball ' a 
1897. 
April 
Apr . 22 . 
Hill, Concord, Mass. 
While passing through an opening in the pines on Bensen's 
knoll this afternoon I started affine adult Goshawk, a large 
scarce 
bird and hence I suppose a female. She was perched .five feet 
above the ground among the loose and dead branches and did not 
take wing until I was within three or four yards startling me 
by her sudden appearance so very near. Bearing something 
(which looked like a plucked and half-devoured Partridge) in 
her talons she flapped heavily across the opening and into 
some pines beyond where I failed to find her again. She had 
either lost or was moulting her tail feathers for the tail 
was very ragged with not more than half its feathers of nor- 
mal length. 
Early in the forenoon as I was standing on the top of 
Ball's Hill I saw a Goshawk doubtless a £ for it looked as 
large as the biggest Hed-tail. It scaled over the pine coverec/ 
knoll beyond the swamp and on reaching Bensen's field began 
soaring so very like a Buteo that had it not been for its ex- 
cessively long tail, short wings and blue back I could not 
have believed it to be an Accipiter . When scaling it looked 
exactly like a big Cooper's Hawk. 
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