I have a clutcli 
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are nests built during tlie intermin of our visit the 
previous spring and the present, and often when 
pursuing Bob-white with gun and setter in 
autumn I observed so many nests ot the Bed- 
shouldered Hawk’s erection, in very familiar 
woods, which had been well searched in the 
spring, that it was extremely provoking to think 
how they had escaped me, for I had diligently 
sought the second sets about the middle of May, 
but save for a single instance, I was unrequited 
for my labor. 
My apprisal of the true condition of affairs re- 
garding their late or second laying came upon me 
w “”‘» 
tory problem. While hunting for nests of the 
Scarlet Tanager about the middle of .June in ’78, 
the sci earn of a Red-shouldered Hawk caused my 
mind to revert to the vexed question, and I began 
a careful search for the nest, which was found 
altei several ascents to deserted and empty domi- 
ciles. This nest, differing in no way from those 
Of the Eed-shoul found in early s P rin g> contained three eggs, the 
to chronicle fourtec contents of which the blow-pipe proved to be 
chronicle tourtet nearly fresh . TMnki that h this ingt 
son, eight sets of fo was lypical of their second laying>1 looked for 
sets tin ee each. 0 their nests on the following day, and was success- 
four sets, all of two f ul to a moderate degree, finding three nests of 
Buteos to breed iri ' lle Bed-shouldered Hawk, each containing three 
large trees some (jj fiesh eggs, and one of the Red-tailed Hawk with 
little or no undereri y ° lmg jUSt hatche(L Since this > first experi- 
, , , , d encem their late breeding, I have annually taken 
taken between Apr an occasional hawking trip the second week in 
nearly every egg sli June with good success. 
cubation. / One interesting feature, is tlie length of time 
/j? y —/ ypf wh j ch intervenes between the dates of the two 
/ periods of incubation, for having taken a set from 
(P 4- (P, ^ a P air °f B. line, a, tux as early as April 15, I am 
obliged to wait until June 8th ere I could take the 
i / i completed second set. B. borealis breeding earlier in 
- Aprii is correspondingly earlier with second sets, 
having them ready by May 13th, although I have 
The earliest Ha , f ° Und fresh sets as late as Ma y 26 - B seems as 
Spring were on the i 9 l* h ° USh thp Buteo * 'learn a lesson from the predat- 
three in number and / ry °° 0 ^ ln early spring, and 
blotches. / 4 tlle y wait until the foliage of the forest has devel- 
-i-W. oped sufficiently to screen the nests from view, 
and their patient waiting is in many cases re- 
4- & X warded ’ for 1 doubt if one - thi rd of the nests can 
be found when hidden in the leafy woods of 
jj June ; and the number of hawks observe^ show 
S? monv" that they stil1 lloId tIleir own against the com- 
* and Boe b ' ned war f are °f oologists, farmers and legislative 
.enactment. 
Chase, t 
T* J-iedges. Hawking in June differs somewhat from the 
^ and Ga same pastime in April. To ascend the forty-foot 
Gate, .smooth trunk of a chestnut tree on a summer 
§ low and Fail-view Reservoir. April »r, — 
§ two, Cranberry Bog. May 4, set of two, Hop- 
kin’s W. May 10, set of two, Sunnyside. May 
n 12, set of three inc., Wawecus Hill, two fresh 
eggs Whippoorwill Ledge. May 29, one inc., 
S* egg, Hopkip’s W. June 1, set of two inc. Hell 
Gate. d $%". 7f. CfristsvK 
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midday will remind one forcibly of a modern 
sweat bath— with the bath left out— while mos- 
quitoes, evidently aware that both hands are fully 
occupied in grasping the tree, will present their 
bills with audacity beyond description, and as a 
culminating crisis in many cases the nest will be 
iound empty or squirrel-occupied, while the nest, 
to which the pair of hawks screaming overhead 
belong, can be seen in an equally difficult tree a 
few rods distant, but which, owing to the density 
of the foliage, could not be seen from the ground ; 
yet, nevertheless, as a change from the usual col- 
lecting of the month, and as much is still to be 
learned about their second breeding, it would be 
well for oologists to go “ Hawking in June.” 
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O.&Q. XI. Sept. 1886 , p. /37~/3fi, 
