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Hawk. Summer resident, very rare. Breeds. 
O.&O. XII. Sent. 1887 p.139 
General Notes. 
Bird Notes from Springfield, Massachusetts. — Last year, upon a narrow 
platform, under the cornice of a building six stories high in the center of 
the business portion of Springfield, a pair of Sparrow Hawks ( Falco spar- 
verius) built their nest and the female deposited therein a set of five eggs, 
which were successfully hatched. The young were then taken and removed 
to the roof of the building and placed in a box, and were followed there 
and cared for by the parents until they were fully grown. Any one going 
on to this roof and near the nest would be assailed by one of the old birds 
who would dart at the intruder from the spire of a neighboring church, 
where one of the parents was usually stationed. These facts seem 
remarkable when it is considered, that the incubation and rearing were in 
the very heart of a busy city of fifty thousand people. Two of the voung 
are still kept here in confinement. 'SSfdflbcn^fc O, Morris. 
Auk XII. Jan. 1896 p. 80 
