A Climb for Red-tails. 
often called ‘‘bird-hawk” or “‘bullet 
hawk” by the farmers. It builds a neat 
little unlined nest all of sticks in a pine or 
hemlock back from some farm, and every 
day comes dashing into the barn-yard for 
asmall chicken. Spare them not boys, but 
be sure and distinguish the little sparrow 
hawk with the reddish tail, which hovers 
over the fields and lays in a hollow branch 
of a tree out in the pasture, loves grasshop- 
pers and mice, and has little taste for 
chicken. 
When I go “‘hawking” out west, say in 
the timber-belts along the shores of lakes 
