In a dry pasture we started a Field Sparrow from her 
nest which was sunk in the ground under a bush and contained 
three eggs. 
On our way back we passed through the Glacial Hollow 
to see what the Cooper's Hawks were about. The male barked 
at us as we approached and we started the female from her 
nest which is placed in a tall pine nearly 50 feet above 
the ground. Under the trees near the nest we found where 
the Hawks had picked a Robin and a Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 
scattering wing,tail and body feathers over the ground. The 
female Hawk looked very large. She left the nest before we 
quite got beneath it and flev; off very heavily and clumsily 
for a bird of this kind. 
After dinner Deane climbed to the nest and found 
that it contained only one egg. It was lined with bark 
and a few pine needles. 
At the lower edge of Mrs. Barrett's orchard we 
started a female Broad-winged Hawk. It flew nearly over us, 
carrying a Mouse in its talons. I have practically no doubt 
that it was the same bird th t Purdie and I saw in the same 
place on May 1st and which I thought at the time to be a 
small male Red-shouldered Hawk — getting orfl^} a distant view 
of it. It must be breeding somewhere near. 
While we were in Lawrence’s woods a large, adult Red¬ 
tailed Hawk came soaring over us. I have not seen one near 
here in the breeding season before for several years. 
