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Buteo lineatus. 
1902. Dorchester, Mass. 
Dec. 22. On December 22 a policeman discovered an adult Red-shoul- 
dered Hawk in an open field in Dorchester between River Street 
and Neponset River. The bird was in some way disabled for it 
could not fly though it showed no signs of injury. The bird 
was captured and taken to Captain Hunt of the Police Station 
who took it the next morning, the 23rd, to the court house in 
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Dorchester where it was presented to Judge J .R. Churchill when 
he visited the rooms on that morning. The bird was sitting 
upright on his desk when he entered the room. When the Judge 
started for Boston later in the morning, he tied the bird's 
legs together and wrapped it up in brown paper and took it 
with him to his office' in the city where it lay quietly on his 
desk, its head out of the paper, until after four o'clock in 
the afternoon. Then he took it out to Cambridge to Mr.Wm. 
Brewster's Museum, reaching here at five o'clock. On taking 
the bird out of the paper and loosing the cord around its legs 
we found it apparently in normal condition. It sat on the 
edge of a packing box and seemed to accept the situation in 
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the most philosophical manner. We left it in the big room 
over night and, a few. moments after leaving the roonijGilbert 
found on returning that the Hawk had changed its position 
from the box to the top of a stump containing the nest of a 
Pileated Woodpecker some ten feet from the box and three feet 
above the floor. The bird must have flown to this new perch. 
