Aociniter cocker ii . 
Concord, Mass. 
1887. Still further down (the river) we heard a curious cry 
Apr. 12. repeated at frequent intervals, a low yet penetrating cuok or 
.minTc-eucic uttered in a purring tone. At first I took it for 
the call of a muskrat which it resembled closely but shortly 
afterwards we saw a small Hawk fly from an oak and alight in 
the top of a pine on the hill where I saw the Goshawks last 
summer. It was evidently the author of the cry which it re- 
peated a few times before scaling off over the wodds. Pad- 
dling noiselessly in shore we entered a narrow channel and 
came out into a sheltered lagoon separated from the river by 
a small island. We were skirting the margin next the mainland 
when in an oak on the hillside above I spied a Cooper's Hawk 
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sitting erect and still on a dead prong. The next moment I 
fired bringing it down with a broken wing. It made off at a 
wonderful jiace by a succession of long leaps but finally stood 
"at bay" as we landed and approached it. It proved a female 
in ragged, dull plumage. Its mate which we afterwards saw 
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again was probably the author of the cucking cry. 
