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UPTON, MAINE 
1874 
August 4 - 
very peculiar and shrill whistle. Took also Emp.flaviventris 
& dult and nestling: two of the latter were sitting side by side 
on a dog wood limb uttering a juvenile version of the spring 
sl-ap of the adult. In P.M. skinned my birds and took 7 trout. 
August 4 . Cloudy and very cold. After breakfast rode up to the 
top of the hill with Mr. G. and after getting the mail, started 
down beating for Cock by the way. Flushed five broods ofruffed 
grouse all about half grown birds and shot two individuals, 
both over steady points and hard brush shots withal. Did not 
see any traces of cock and judge that the season being so wet 
they have taken to the big woods. 
Accipiter Cooperii and young 
Walking near the edge of a deep ravin I was attracted 
by a shrill whistling cry repeated at intervals and stealing 
quietly down to the place saw a brood of four Cooperus hawks 
sitting in a row along a fallen log. Every little while one or 
the other of them would raise his wings and flapping them to 
maintain his balance would walk a few steps lengthwise on the 
log at the same time uttering the whistle above described, which 
by the way was quite a different note from that heard yesterday. 
They sat very erect and young as they were had all that dignity 
and stern consciousness of power so characteristc of the family. 
Shooting one of them the rest flapped up into the trees above 
where I secured another when the remaining two disappeared. I 
found under their roost a half grown grouse neatly plucked with 
the head and breast devoured. Further down the. hill I started 
