Buteo lineatus . 
Concord, Liass. 
1898,, Several weeks ago I noticed in the large white pine that 
June 26 . stands at the foot of Holden's Hill on the south side a nest 
which looked very much like the nest of a Red Squirrel only 
it was much too large. In other words it was a very bulky 
and almost shapeless mass containing few if any sticks and 
composed almost wholly of what looked like the reddish inner 
bark of the chestnut. It was placed close against the trunk 
of the tree on a stout branch about 40 feet above the ground. 
The ground beneath was thickly sprinkled with chalky white 
spots of excrement evidently that of either a Hawk or an Owl 
out on neither the first nor a subsequent visit did I see any 
signs of life in or about the nest. As we approached it this 
afternoon, however, I made out a young bird sitting very erect 
in the nest. It was covered with light grayish down and its 
face looked broad and round like that of an Owl, but a few mo- 
ments later we discovered another young bird fully feathered 
and free from down perched on a branch several yards from the 
nest and this second young was evidently a Red-shouldered 
Hawk. I cannot understand the wide difference in apparent age 
between it and the young bird in the nest, but of course both 
must have belonged to the same brood. It does not seem pos- 
sible that the young could have been hatched from eggs laid 
last April when the 'pair of Red-shoulders were so constantly 
