Tot anus melanoleucus . 
Concord, 
1894. 
Oct. 17 . 
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Mass. Chased by a Duck Hawk. 
At about 2 P.M. of October 17th as I was dining in the 
cabin with some friends we heard the call of a Greater Yellow- 
leg repeated several times in quick succession and evidently 
very near. Rushing out I saw the bird coming directly to- 
wards me from the opposite side of the river flying low and, 
as it struck me, rather feebly. Greatly to my surprise it 
plunged directly into the belt of bushes (alders, cornels, 
willows, etc.) which borders the shore in front and a little 
to the east of the cabin. I now for the first time saw that 
it was pursued by a Duck Hawk which must have been twenty or 
thirty yards behind the Yellow-leg when the latter reached 
the shore and which, on losing sight of its quarry, bounded 
straight upward to a height of forty feet or more and then 
poised for several seconds beating its wings rapidly and in- 
cessantly bending its head downward like a Sparrow Hawk or 
Kingfisher as it closely scanned the thicket beneath. I had 
a fine view of it - it was within thirty yards or less - and 
made it out to be a young male. Presently it saw me and 
turning flew off towards the southwest over Great Meadow. 
I now began looking for the Yellow-leg but it was not 
until I put the little cocking spaniel "Hadji" into the bushes 
that I succeeded in flushing it. It then flew only a few rods 
and al i&ht in& in the water among some lily pads swam slowly 
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