CO CORD, 
Sentember 36 
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Hfiwte 
and devours 
a 'lue-Jay 
Yesterday mourning two young female Sharp-shinned 
Hawke ppe red over our flower-garden, chasing one l noth t 
and playing together la the air precisely like mating 
swallow#, Roth alighted near together, at the same time, 
in the big a ah just above the roof of the barn as I was 
standing in the doorway* They looked as innocent and harm¬ 
ies e as big doves and showed no fear of rae. 
A very different experience with a bird of similar 
age and sex fell to ny lot this naming. As I .fas walking 
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down our Xaaua I heard in the de-..,sely-wooded run to which 
it leads r~.d fully one .hundred yards in advance, a aucuiwgeion 
of agonised cries such as all email birds seem to utter In 
almost precisely the same tone arid key when seised by a 
Hawk, Foil wi ig uo the sounds (eh-eh-w .-eh. etc.) I reached 
the edge of the cover,when they seemed so very ne r that I 
atoo ed and peered In through the leaves* The next instant 
I sew the Hawk, a young female harp-shin, standing erect' 
aid still on the ground under a big hickory* Just before 
it another bird that looked aim afc as big ao a bigooo was 
t f rrbnllng about and beating its dugs as if badly hurt, Th- 
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Hawk pre ently attacked it again, tearing (with efk only) 
at lb 2 feathers and plucking them out by the mouthful. For 
nearly five minutes more the poor bird continued to struggle 
and cry most piteously although during the latter yurt of 
te ring 
the tine I c old see that the Hawk was tiding out and 
greedily devouring shreds of raw livlnn flesh instead of 
feathers. Hot >nce did it use its talons on the poor victim 
