. Bird lore . I had found them hatched that the nestwas empty, and I felt sure that they couldnot have matured sufficiently to leave thenest, but that they were destroyed onaccount of its unusually exposed did not see or hear anything of the oldbirds in the vicinity. Other Chewinks had been feeding theiryoung two weeks earlier, and it occurredto me that this one may have been belatedby having used equally poor judgment inthe location of a previous nest. I hadalways found a Chewinks nest on theground, and then only with great diffi- ( culty, after many vain hunts. I had aphotograph made
. Bird lore . I had found them hatched that the nestwas empty, and I felt sure that they couldnot have matured sufficiently to leave thenest, but that they were destroyed onaccount of its unusually exposed did not see or hear anything of the oldbirds in the vicinity. Other Chewinks had been feeding theiryoung two weeks earlier, and it occurredto me that this one may have been belatedby having used equally poor judgment inthe location of a previous nest. I hadalways found a Chewinks nest on theground, and then only with great diffi- ( culty, after many vain hunts. I had aphotograph made of the empty nest,thinking it might interest someone else.—Anne E. Perkins, Gowanda, N. Y. Hawk and Snake While riding along the shore of a lakenot far from here, I saw a Hawk drop nottwenty feet from me, and rode up to seethe cause of it. The Hawk had caught a3-foot black snake, and the snake, inturn, had wound itself around the Hawksneck. I watched them fight for ten min-utes, and, as the Hawk seemed to be. HAWK AND BLACK SNAKE IN COMBAT getting the worst of it (and I raise somechickens), I left them to fight it out.— Herron, Inverness, Fla. The Mockingbird at Boston, Mass. On Thursday morning, January 2, Iwent on a trip to Jamaica Pond, which isin the Boston Park district. My purposewas to study the ducks that stoppedthere on their migrations, remaining thereuntil it freezes. On the way out, I could hear manyChickadees flying overhead and in thebranches of the surrounding trees, andnow and then a Blue Jay from the otherside of the pond. When not quite halfway to my desti-nation, I noticed a grayish bird that 243) 244 Bird- Lore alighted on one of the lower branches, offto the right. His upper parts were lightgray, lower parts lighter, wings and tailnearly black, outer tail feathers and lowerpart of the primaries white, bill black andslightly curved; unmistakably a Mocking-bird. When I arrived at the pond, the partnearest me was frozen, but the other sidewas open, so
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