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Falco sparverius. — About the middle of last March, a pair ot Sparrow 
Hawks took possession for breeding purposes, of an apartment in a dove- 
cote at my farm in Tatham in West Springfield, driving out a pair of 
Doves that were there in possession and destroying their nest. Their 
first egg was laid April 17, the second after an interval of two days, and 
three others, each, after an interval of one day. Incubation commenced 
after the fourth was laid. The male was at this time killed, but the 
female remained devoted to her work and on the 27th of May- three 
Hawks were hatched, and the following day, another. One of the eggs 
proved not to be fertile. Incubation lasted thirty-four days, a period 
much longer than heretofore reported. During the whole of the time of 
incubation and the rearing of the young, the mother Hawk did not inter- 
fere with the wild birds that had adopted the territory in the vicinity of 
the dove-cote for their home. 
A pair of Bluebirds nested in a bird-house within thirty feet, and 
Robins, Phoebes, Vesper Sparrows and other kinds all remained undis- 
turbed in the immediate neighborhood, and the pair of Doves that were 
first made to give way for the Hawks, were permitted to rebuild in a 
place adjacent to their first home. The young of the Hawks were all 
successfully raised and are now well and happy in confinement. — Robert 
O. Morris, Springfield, Mass. A.nk, XVI, Jan., 1899, VP- 9 S’- 6 ■ 
