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markings is a very bright reddish brown. (W. E. Saunders.) 

 Tolerably common at Aweme, Man., nesting in low trees about 

 four to twelve feet from the ground. (Criddle.) Osgood found 

 a nest of this species about fifteen feet from the ground in a small 

 spruce near the centre of an island near Nordenskiold river, Alaska. 

 {Bishop.) 



333. Cooper Hawk. 



Accipiter cooperii (Bonap.) Gray. 1844. 



This species is either unequally distributed or not readily separated 

 from other species by observers. 



An uncommon summer migrant in Newfoundland. {Reeks.) 

 Very scarce in Nova Scotia. Col. Egan procured and mounted one 

 specimen. {Gilpin.)] Not common at Wolfville, Kings county, 

 N.S. ; absent in winter. {H. F. Tufts.) Seen on Cape Breton island, 

 N.S. {Townsend.) A pair seen in Brackley point woods, Prince 

 Edward island. {Macoun.) An uncommon summer resident in 

 New Brunswick. {Chamberlain.) Common in the Restigouche 

 valley, and sparingly distributed through the whole St. Lawrence 

 valley and westward throughout Ontario. {Macoun.) Rare mi- 

 grant at Toronto, Ont. (/. H. Fleming.) One seen on the Hayes 

 river, Keewatin. {Preble.) Rather rare; evidently breeds at Aweme, 

 Man. {Criddle.) This species is a summer resident in Manitoba, 

 and extends north to the Saskatchewan. {E.T.Seton.) I have a mature 

 bird, taken on April 25th, 1896, at Banff, Alberta. (/. H. Fleming.) 

 Apparently rare in the Rocky mountains. Not common in the 

 Columbia valley, but was taken at Revelstoke, May 5th, 1890, and 

 seen later at Nelson, on Kootenay river. {Macoun.) Met with, in 

 British Columbia, only at the Ducks, near Kamloops. {Streator.) 

 Tolerably common summer resident in the lower Eraser valley. 

 {Brooks.) Found both on Vancouver island and on the southern 

 mainland, east and west of the Coast range. {Fannin.) Distribu- 

 tion general. Breeding at Lake la Hache, B.C., and in the Rocky 

 mountains at Field; alt., 7,000 feet; rare. {Rhoads.) Saw a pair 

 at Elko, B.C., 1904; a pair at Midway, B.C., April 25th, 1905, and 

 two at Penticton, B.C., in 1903. {Spreadborough.) Several seen 

 during the second and third weeks of August at Sitka, Alaska. 

 {Grinnell.) 



