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back again and again and varied this by swooping suddenly out at the sparrow with setting wings like a Hawk and scaring the small[[?]] into an attempt at hiding among the branches.

Others were mating and chased the females incessantly. They went in bunches of six or eight and as soon as the females lit the males began to call and come close to them to be driven away with open bills. Then the females would take refuge in flight again closely pursued by the screaming males.

As I was watching the

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pair of Bluejays through the glass a Red-tailed Hawk suddenly sailed in the field of vision. The Jays were forgotten and I followed it as it rose in great circles. It was above the woods near Rock Cut. Suddenly when it had reached an altitude of about four hundred feet it lifted its wings straight and dropped straight as a stone into the woods below without even checking its great speed as it neared the ground. It must have seen something below it to eat and took this means of getting it. If its speed seemed great a distance