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or change it® position on the ground although it sometimes 
flapped its bro yl sing© with a slow, wavlny motion, probably 
to keep its b-.OLanoe while tugging out an especially long 
-ff piece of flesh, fch'.i length the cries >f the victim and its 
struggle ceased at almost the came instant, I then left 
the spot and hurried to t-ie house far my gun. hen I 
returned 1 got only a fleeting glimpse at the Hawk aa it 
rose and tinned off like shadow foreign the trees. It 
must have carried off its »rey for I searched th- ; round 
cle-ely without finding- any lag rave a pile of feathers 
and two pools of bio-d almost as broad as tho palm of wy 
hand. The feathers -were those -f i lue Jay, I could not 
see the latter very distinctly while watching it struggle, 
but it seemed to me to be lying face d mw&rd all the while 
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and oot mcklnsr any resistance, tut at first Uiero as 
a;. othiag In the •ttitude and notions of the Hawk nhieh 
seemed to betoken that it was standing partly or. yiv- rd, 
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hater on, it anyc- red to i© to f- irly revel 1 the gov ge 
joy of gorging itself on the living flesh and to be 
utterly indi-tfer©nt to the agony of it© victim or ■ erfcaps 
eve>- to exult In it. 
Perhr e 1 have not deooribed "itL erfficient defi¬ 
nite =es© the cries which thr Jay uttered, They were not 
i • v ® least jay-like but rather rerembled the sc . 1 hi rig 
plaint which a Hod-eyed Yireo gives who i its nest is in 
danger, ""hey had a different quality from that, however. 
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