by daylight as she had been in the Dark, and went through all the same manœuvres at times swooting but often within the purring shrubs, The dashing rapidity & quick windings of her flight absolutely amazed me & I think I never saw any other bird show such perfect Command of wing among thick branches. The flight of the 8 (as seen last night) was slow & easy with frequent sailing & his wings looked broad & his head extremely large in proportion, but the 2 I had during a very different aspect & her wings appeared very long & swift. like. I finally secured her & right turned my attention to the nest. It was in a Red Cedar about 20 ft. above the ground & on examination proved a flat platform correspond outwardly of sticks, & lined with strips of cedar bark. By diam. 18 in. i. do 9 in. One young bird sat on the edge & another was perched on the branch of an adjoining Yellow Pine. When first seen they appeared a partly spherical ball of feathers, but as soon as they noticed me they drew themselves up to their full height, exactly like S. asio but unlike him did not seem to demonstrate the power of "marrowin' the cyphes into slits" When I had climbed to within a few feet