Palco co lumbar ius 
Lake ttobagog, Maine. 
1395. As we neared the entrance to Leonard's Pond a Pigeon Hawk 
Sept. I0 V alighted on a stub which stood on the river bank. We approach 
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ed to within easy range when I saw that the bird was a fine 
adult male but before I could raise the gun it flew and I 
missed it as it was making off. Less than one hundred yards 
further on I was surprised to see at least a dozen Yellow- 
ruraped Warblers in a dying and nearly leafless maple which 
overhung the'water. They were, hopping and flitting about but 
did not' appear to be especially active or excited and were ma^ 
king no noise. While I was looking at them my eye was attract¬ 
ed to an upright motionless form in the centre of the tree and 
this I made out through my glass to be another Pigeon Hawk, 
a young bird, apparently a male. It was evidently the object 
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which had excited the interest of the Warblersbut they did not 
appear to be in the least afraid of it, for they repeatedly 
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approached within four or five feet of it, always hov/ever keep¬ 
ing above it. The Hawk did not seem to notice them,but kept 
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its gaze fixed on the ground beneath as nearly as I could 
judge from the position of its head. I was on the point of 
shooting at it when, like the other, it escaped by taking 
flight,but my shot cut several feathers from it and it went 
off as if badly wounded dropping into a thicket of alders where 
we could neither find it or flush it. 
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Early this morning I had seen still a third Pigeon Hawk 
