15 . 
a meadow lark flew into the top of a tall oak. 
here in town and commenced to sing. A sparrow 
came and lit a few feet helow it, and flew up 
and attacked it, but the lark kept on singing. 
The sparrow flew away. 
This afternoon I went hunting. As I was 
coming home I heard some bluejays calling 
angrily. I looked up where they were and saw 
what 1 thought was a large owl, flying low down 
and being bothered by the jays. I tried to 
get near enough for a shot, but it saw me and 
as it flew out into the open giving a fair shot 
1 saw it was a large hawk. It was flying very 
fast but I dropped it, its wings carrying it 
nearly 3 rods from where I shot it. I picked it 
Up and found that it was a Cooper’s hawk. The 
underparts were white and each feather had four 
small bands of reddish brown. The belly had a 
few spots of the same and the undertail coverts 
were snowy white. The shins were the same and 
on the leg was a thin fuss of reddish cinnamon. 
The tail 8 inches in length was round,tipped with 
^ite. it was slate gray batMad with black. The 
sides of the neck and upper breast slaty brown; 
"back slaty gray, shoulders fuscous, crown 
blackish. At the back of the head is a concealed 
white spot. Length 18-1/2 inches. 
October 15, 1899 - Sunday . 
We nb down to the ravines. I saw the redhead 
was catching insects, then it went down on the 
ground and got an acorn; then went to where 1 got 
16 the Sunday before and the corn was gone. I got 
15 a °orns out of the hole. Went on farther to the 
e dge of the brush and saw some bluebirds. Heard 
° ne give his song of tru trually . Saw one on the 
ground. After awhile one lit in the top of a tree. 
sang and said turwee for some time. It gave one 
«obe like trfih . -The—flight is swift and regular. 
13 m0I 'e flapping than the robins. A king- 
isher started to light on a limb a foot a,„,-. 
