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Hawk 
A strange 
Buteo ? 
in rude imitation of the cry of the Red-shouldered Hawk, but 
when I finally caught sight of the bird sitting in the top 
of a birch on the edge of fiolden 1 s meadow, I saw at once 
that it was a Hawk of medium size. The next instant it flew 
and made off at great speed in the direction of Davis’s Hill, 
where the short pointed wings and rapid, nervous flapping 
alternating with periods of scaling identified it at once 
as a Cooper’s Hawk, the first that I have observed this 
season. 
Still another Hawk which crossed the river from 
Ball’s Hill to the Bedford shore where it alighted in a 
large oak puzzled me completely although I had a good view 
of it through a strong glass not over 100 yards away at 
first^with the light and other conditions favorable in every 
way * It appeared to be of a uniform dull black color, 
both above and beneath, with a little white mottling or 
perhaps barring on the upper side of the tail. At first 
I took it for a black Rough-leg but the flight, like that 
of a Buteo, was heavy and direct, the bird first flapping 
a few times and then scaling. It chose for its perch,more¬ 
over, a stout horizontal branch about midway of the oak, 
whereas an Archibuteo would have been nearly certain to 
alight on the topmost twig of the tree. Were such an occur¬ 
rence at all probable, I should suspect strongly that this 
Hawk was Buteo harlani . Perhaps this hypothesis will answer 
as well as another, for certainly the bird belonged to a 
species which I have never seen living before. It is quite 
possible, however, that it was a black specimen of Buteo 
