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Scott's Emulsion ar rests the progress of Consumption, Bron chitis, Scrofula, and other wasting diseases by raising a barrier of healthy desk, strength and nerve. jWrtd bj Scott * Bowna, H. Y. All J Jwdfcr TiwttM mi BliMd and tti* Di§«w SWIM SrtBiflj ™ IA CHAT ABOUT HAWKS. WHAT A NATURALIST HAS TO SAY FOR THEM. Boma A re Robin dinner* and Chicken Tlilavan.Rut Many of Tham Are Frlanita of the Farmer—Tlielr Hardihood, Conraga and Rapnulty.* [ A hawk pounces upon a poultry yard and bears away the most promis I ing pullet. From that time on at | least one chicken farmer denounces the entire hawk family, root and branch, when, in reality, out of fif teen or more species of hawks which have been credited to Maine by dili gent collectors, there are very few which • are not mainly or wholly beneficial to the*farmer. Most authorities agree in placing the hawks, together with the owls, in the order Kaptores, says a Maine writer. To quote from a well-known author: ••The birds of prey are noted for their strength, the rapidity, grace, or ease of their flight, and, in many cases, for their extraordinary power of sailing. With the exception of the vultures, they are famous for their spirit, variously displayed in energy, boldness, or courage, and for their carnivorous taste. They are hardy, being furnished with a thick feathering and an encasement of fat which enables them to withstand the cold and to live without food much longer than human beings can.” Consequently they are, to a large extent, all the year round residents, ! though more common during winter | in the vicinity of the seaboard than in the interior, their migrations, such as they are, being doubtless more controlled by the movements of their prey than by any desire to escape the severity of our winter weather. During the fall they become more common than at other seasons, fre quently associating in large flocks, and at these times may often be seen for hours indulging in a series of most graceful aerial evolutions, soar ing in bewildering soit-als higher and higher into the blue ether. Beyond placing the hawks in the order above mentioned, there is slight difference between authors as to their further classification, and. in fact, one authority goes so far as to create a new order,that of falconi,for their special benefit,based on the wide difference between hawks and owls in internal characteristics. Following this author's classification, the first family that is brought to our atten tion is that of the kites, the only New England representative of which is the marsh-hawk, marsh Harriet or bog-hawk. This species presents more of the external features of the owls than any other. It has a well defined facial disk or ruff, as well as large ear cavities and noticeably downy plumage. 1 have most often seen the marsh hawk, near the twilight hour, cruis ing about the lower lying farm lands in irregular and leisurely flight, daintily beating to the right an:l left in quest’of snakes, frogs or mice, or airily rising and falling with the contour of the landscape, their iden tity being easily established by their white rump, bluish-gray upper parts and length of wing. The favorite breeding place for these hawks is some secluded meadow, where in May they place their rude nests of sticks and grasses, unlike any other hawk, upon the ground. Their com plement of eggs is usually four in number, bluish white, often showing brown markings. The next family is that of Falconi dae, or that of the falcons. Four members, or rather species of this family are to be credited to Maine, but two of them, the ger-falcon and the Peregrine falcon, have never come under my personal observation. The other two are the pigeon-hawk, or American merlin, and the spright-. ly sparrow hawk, the former being in my own locality much the more com mon of the two. In size they are small, measuring about twelve inches in length (the common robin meas ures nine and ten inches in compari l son). The male bird is of a dark, bluish slate above, but ashy brown in the female and young, feathers having a central, longitudinal line of black. The . tail is banded, ashy white and black, its maincolor being bluish ash; forehead and throat white, or nearly so; under parts white huffish on the breast and red dish behind marked with dark brown. They are an alert, nervous bird, rapid in flight, yet rarely observed sailing. They seem to prefer the open fields and pastures as hunting grounds, where they may quite fre quently be observed perched in some sentinel tree watching for their prey, on which they pounce with inde scribable speed. This handsome species is described as usually choos ing some tall pme for a nesting place, where its domicile is built of sticks, grasses, strips of bark and bits of moss. In Maine I have found the more striking sparrow-hawk quite rare, but in Florida they are abundant, and it is there that I have had my best opportunities for studying them. They are a little smaller than the preceding species, and more lively in coloration. The top of the head Is ashy blue, with a chestnut-colored patch, otherwise the head is “white, with usually seven large black mark ings, including one on the nape.” The tail is often surrounded by white and broadly tipped with black. Back, rump and upper tail coverts, bright crimson; under parts white, , overwashed to quite an extent with cinnamon. The female is similar, but plainer. The sparrow-hawks de light to feed on small birds, mice, grasshoppers, and a few other insects. In Florida 1 have found them social little fellows, showing little fear of man. Of the next family, the short* winded hawks, we olatm three repre sontatlves. The sharp-shinned hawk is probably in most localities our most common species. In size it is about equal to the pigeon-hawk, but can be readily distinguished' from it by its generally lighter plumage, its longer leg and its erratlo flight, which consists of quick, irregular flapping, punctuated by hasty periods of sailing. Their general color is a brownish ash above, with now and then a few white spots, on the heads and wings. The tail is lighter colored than the back, tipped with black, and barred with dark brown. Beneath, white; breast closely bar red with yellowish brown, and throat • ‘penciled” with the same. Despite their irregular flight, the little “sharp-shins” can travel with won derful rapidity. They seem to enjoy overtaking their prey In the air, and, when in pursuit of it, are oblivious to all danger, and I have more than once shot them when they were blindly pursuing robins, against whom they seem to wage an incessant warfare. 1 do not know what report the agri cultural bureau has made regarding this hawk from the farmer's stand point, I should unhesitatingly, from my observation, pronounce it an unmitigated nuisance; it is the chicken-hawic par excellence, and if it once enters your flock you may confidently look for its return, and, barring accidents, it will levy tribute on them all. Their nests are most often built In the “crotch” of a pine tree, twenty feet from the ground. The usual number of eggs is four, white, sometimes unmarked, but most often with a few con spicuous markings of umber near the larger end. Ttie Form or Hlr »•* Kggi Dr. Niealsky of St. Petersburg, at tributes the form of bird’s eggs to gravity. He thinks that every egg not yet coated with a solid shell de parts from the spherical form and elongates, simply because of pres sure on it by the walls of the ovary. In birds which keep a vertical posi tion when at rest, such as the falcon and owl, the soft egg becomes short through the bird’s weight acting against the ovarian pressure. I n birds which, like the grebe, are nearly always swimming, the egg lengthens„beeause the weight of the body acts in the same direction as the ovarian compression. A. Woitnn Breeze. Easterner—Do you do any yachting out West? Westerner—Oh, yes. On our lakes and rivers. I had a yacht, but it blew away. ♦ “Why didn’t you follow and get it back?” ‘•Hadn’t any balloon.” Mill Worm). Wife, bitterly—You docsived me when you married mo. Husband--I did more than that. I deceived myself. AS3QRTEP NONSENSE. .Tolinnie—So you were really in the war. 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Miss Bangupp—My grandmother found it in my greatgrandmother’s old trunk. Mrs. Parvenu—Here are Mrs. Du Monde’s cards, left this afternoon. What does she mean by *P. P. C.’ down in the corner. I wonder? Her Daughter—Only that she is about to go away—to travel, I fancy. Mrs. P. —Oh! I suppose she wants people to know that she's going on a Pullman palace car. Stuck-up thing. Vi| Highest of all in Leavening Power.—-Latest U. S. Gov’t Report. W ABSOLUTELY PURE Electric Girl* and Wild Men. "Fake" freaks often draw better than genuine ones, but they do not last so long. A recent Instance of this kind was an "electric girl.” It was asserted that she was so charged with electricity that one received a shock upon shaitlng hands with her. This delusion, was really produced by the girl standing on a wet mat charged with electricity from a hidden battery and large enough for the visitor to stand on also. Another fake of the same class, which 1 came across not long ago, was a "wild man of the woods" who was crouched in a dark earner of what appeared to be a heav ily-bgrred cage, clanking the heavy chains that were attached to his limbs. A strong railing was placed in front, so as not to allow visitors to approach too close to the man. The lecturer told the audience how this remarkable crea ture had been found running wild by a party of hunters on the west coast of Africa, and that he had been in cap tivity only a few months, and was very dangerous, so much so that his ment, which he would eat only in a raw state, had to be placed in the cage with a long iron fork. After the museum was closed every night this wild man doffed liis chains and suit of hair and took the car to his home, where he was ac counted one of the mildest and most henpecked of men.— Lippincott's Mag azine. Man's Fall. 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