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Marsh Hawk 
the bird was moving on a level plane and making no sound 
that reached my ears. When he ceased his song flight, he 
merely pitched down into the meadow with closed or half- 
closed wings and silently as Snipe are accustomed to do at 
all seasons when descending to their feeding grounds from 
high in air. 
It is very late in the spring, of course, for Snipe 
to be lingering here and the pe insistence aid fervor of this 
particular bird in respect to drumming lead me to suspect 
that he may have a mate and a rest somewhere in the meadows 
which he is haunting. 
fTwice this afternoon I saw a fine adult male Marsh 
Hawk beating the Great Meadow. On each occasion his oresence 
created a great disturbance among the R e d-wings who followed 
him with loud cries of alarm, darting down at him from above 
as they do at Grows and at Bitterns, too, for that matter. 
I wonder if they have any real reason to fear either the 
Marsh Hawk or the Bittern.! 
