Buteo lineatus. 
2 . 
This morning, the 24th, at nine o'clock, the bird was in 
the same place looking perfectly well and vigorous and ap- 
pearing a little more aggressive than yesterday when it al- 
lowed us to stroke its back and neck. It plucked and ate an 
English Sparrow that was secured for it in the garden. I 
watched him during this operation with much interest. 
10.30 A.M., Dec. 24, 1902. 
Museum, 
Walter Deane. 
Since my last entry the Hawk has continued in the Museum 
room and is apparently perfectly well, in the afternoon of 
the 24th, Wednesday , when I entered the room I found that our 
bird had taken up his station at the farther end of the west 
aisle where he was sitting on a chair quietly. He has never 
left this corner, though he occasionally shifts his position 
to the edge of an adjoining box. Yesterday* the 26th, a pig- 
eon from the market was stripped of its feathers and laid be- 
fore him , but though he very soon seized it in his claws and 
made some feeble attacks on it with his bill he did not eat 
any of it. This morning, the 27th, at about nine o'clock I 
went into the room and found him in his corner on the floor 
with his claws on the pigeon, tearing off and swallowing mor- 
sels of it with apparent relish. Mr. Brewster says that the 
bird could not have been hungry yesterday. 
10 A.M., Dec. 27, 1902, Saturday, Museum, Walter Deane. 
