At about 10 A. M. I was passing the glacial hollow 
when I heard, the Cooper’s Hawk mewing in the pines where it 
was last evening. After giving the drawling, Jay-like 
cleur a few times, it uttered, a cry which I have never heard 
before: kec . kec , kec-kec-kec-kec-kec-kec-kec-kec « the first 
two syllables given slowly and disconnected, all the others 
rapidly in a connected series. The tone was varied somewhat 
during the several repetitions to which I was treated. At 
times it had a barking quality and once it bore a startling 
resemblance to the cackle of a Florida Gallinule. The ca- 
ca-ca cry was also given once or twice. All these notes 
were answered by another bird in the treew on the other side 
of the hollow. Presently both appeared and;,as if for my 
express benefit ? flew from tree to tree and crossed and re¬ 
crossed the hollow,alighting several times in open view 
within 40 yards of me. The male was in immature plumage 
with drab back and longitudinally-streaked under parts. The 
female was in fully adult dress with very richly-colored 
breast. She looked nearly as large as a Red-tailed Hawk. 
Both sexes uttered the same cries. Ifhen perched, they moved 
their heads about alertly and bobbed them up and down 
somewhat after the manner of Owls. They also raised and 
lowered their tails rather slowly like Thrashers or Cat Birds. 
Once the male^after alighting on a branch of a pitch pine^ 
moved his position ten or twelve feet by a series of long 
jumps among the branches. 
