65 UPTON, MAINE 1874 August 4 - very peculiar and shrill whistle. Took also Emp.flaviventris adult and nestling: two of the latter were sitting side by side on a dog wood limb uttering a juvenile version of the spring sl-ap of the adult. In P.M. skinned my birds and took 7 trout. August 4. Cloudy and very cold. After breakfast rode up to the top of the hill with Mr. G. and after getting the mail, started down beating for Cock by the way. Flushed five broods o[ruffed] grouse all about half grown birds and shot two individuals, both over steady points and hard brush shots withal. Did not see any traces of cock and judge that the season being so wet they have taken to the big woods. Accipiter Cooperii and young Walking near the edge of a deep ravin I was attracted by a shrill whistling cry repeated at intervals and stealing quietly down to the place saw a brood of four Cooperus hawks sitting in a row along a fallen log. Every little while one or the other of them would raise his wings and flapping them to maintain his balance would walk a few steps lengthwise on the log at the same time uttering the whistle above described, which by the way was quite a different note from that heard yesterday. They sat very erect and young as they were had all that dignity and stern consciousness of power so characteristic of the family. Shooting one of them the rest flapped up into the trees above where I secured another when the remaining two disappeared. I found under their roost a half grown grouse neatly plucked with the head and breast devoured. Further down the hill I started