It does not 
both must have belonged to the same brood, 
seem possible that these young can have been hatched from egg 
laid last April when the pair of Red-shoulders were so con¬ 
stantly soaring and screaming over Holden's Hill, after 
which they disappeared. Indeed, I think it most probable 
that they laid their first set elsewhere and, losing it, 
came back to Holden's Hill later in the season. I am glad 
to know that my big pine has proved a safe refuge thus far 
for them and their brood. 
******* * * 
George Keyes picked up the shell of a Night Heron's 
egg on Ball's Hill to-day. The Crows must have brought it 
from the Bedford colony. 
