yfs Brief Newsy Notes. 
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Hawk Incitbation.— A Red- s houldered 
Hawk finished her nest and laid the first 
d? egg May 2, 1881. May 5th, there were 
“* three eggs ; May 20th, no change was to 
^ be seen ; visited the nest again May 30th, 
and found two hawks about a day old. 
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I have a clutch of four eggs of the Reibs honl- 
aered Hawk, (Euteo lineatus,) In which are two white, or 
rather cream-colored eggs, and two blotched ones. 
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O.&O. IX. July. 1884. p. V/. 
Of the Red -s hould ered Hawk I am able 
to chronicle fourteen sets taken this sea- 
son, eight sets of four eggs, the remaining 
sets three each. Of the Red-tail I found 
four sets, all of two eggs only. I find the 
Buteos to breed in open woods, that is, 
large trees some distance apart, -with but 
little or no undergrowth. All the sets were 
taken between April 22 and May 1, with 
nearly every egg slightly advanced in in- 
cubation. / 
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j The earliest Hawk’s eggs collected here this 
Spring were on the 19th of April, Red-sliouldered. 
three in number and with very pretty chocolate 
blotches. ^ v 
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B. niNEATPS : April 18, set of three. The Com- 
sp moil’s. April 18, two sets of three, Brick Yard 
and Boggy Meadow. April 20, set of four, Peg’s 
°ri Chase, two sets of three, Sunnyside and Spicer 
T 1 Ledges. April 21, sets of two and three, Ox Hill 
and Gallows Hill. April 22, set of three, Hell 
Gate. April 26, three sets of three, Bowen Hol- 
s' low and Fairview Reservoir. April 27, set of 
§ two, Cranberry Bog. May 4, set of two, Hop- 
kin’s W. May 10, set of two, Sunnyside. May 
o 12, set of three inc., Wawecus Hill, two fresh 
eggs Whippoorwill Ledge. May 29, one inc., 
& ‘ egg, 1 tonkin's W. June 1, set of two inc. Hell 
Gate. J. m>. ?f. 
it will dry rapidly. 
leaving the skin on the 
neck and head whole. Keep 
the part cut off for you may 
want the tip of the wing' or 
the foot in the mounted 
specimen. Now mix Some 
plaster of paris and water 
together in a deep pan, 
making a thin paste of it. 
Then take the body of the 
bird and grease it carefully 
all over the left side. Then 
cut off the neck close to the 
body and push the body 
iuto the plaster paste just up 
to the breast bone. Now . 
pht your skin in a place 
wliere it will not dry fast, 
and\put your plaster paste 
with 'the body in it where 
When the plaster has gottfen hard take a knife 
and run it in between the plaster and the bird, all 
the way around, then take the'jiody out ; but be 
careful not to break the plaster. \ Now take your 
plaster impression and grease itXwell in every 
little cranny. Take some more planter and water 
and mix and pour into the impression until full, 
then let it set until perfectly hard, then take out 
carefully. Now take up your skin and put just a 
ti ilie of cotton in the neck. Now get a nice piece 
of board and place your plaster half body on it, 
in the position you wish it. Paste it on tightly. 
Then take your half skin and fit it on; you will 
find that the feathers will lie just as they <Xo in 
nature, for the cast is exactly the same shapis as 
the body ; now paste the edge of the skin Oil 
aiound and put the head and neck in position 
with pins; covering the heads with feathers! 
Now put the feet and wings in position and pastel 
them there. The decorations on the panel can' 
be put on a ledge running along the bottom of 
the panel, for the ground .— James Speed , Jr. 
Hawking in June. 
BY F. II. C. 
The tramps we take in quest of the eggs of 
Buteo are generally associated with the memory of 
the leafless woods and fickle temperature of our 
New England April. But the keen eye of the 
observing collector will detect many nests, which 
show by their construction that the architecture 
is “ hawkish ” in model, yet the positive knowl- 
edge that they are new to our experience, coupled 
with their weather-beaten appearance, leaves as a 
safe conclusion in our debating mind, that they 
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