CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 2155 



and pieces of rough bark. The nest is placed near the trunk of 

 the tree at from 20 to 60 feet from the ground. The eggs, three 

 or more in number, are yellowish white, with blotches of yellowish 

 brown and slate. A nest found on 30th April near the mouth of 

 the Gatineau river at Ottawa, Ont., was built in a swamp ash (Frax- 

 inus samhucifolia) about 20 feet from the ground. The old bird 

 was sitting at that date. {G. R. White.) On May 5th, 1906, I dis- 

 covered a nest in a small wood near Ottawa . It v\^as 20 feet from 

 the ground and made of green pine branches and lined with bark. 

 Outside diameter 24 inches by 5 inches in height; inside diameter 

 eight and five inches by two inches deep. (Garneau.) A nest con- 

 taining three eggs was found in a beech tree about 25 feet from the 

 ground near Hull, Que., May ist, 1907. (C. H. Young.) 



Strangely enough this is the most common hawk along the St. 

 Lawrence between Kingston and Brockville, though I never saw 

 it in the counties of Renfrew and Lanark. It seems to just take 

 the section of country where the red-tail is absent. It is an early 

 breeder, returning to the same woods year after year, even though 

 disturbed. It usually builds or repairs a nest in a beech tree, but I 

 have seen nests in maple, ash, oak, pine, elm, and once in hemlock. 

 The earliest eggs I have seen were a set of four on April 14th, 1898, an 

 unusually early date; the latest was May 23rd. The average time 

 of laying is about April 25th; the favourite tree for nesting, a beech. 

 This bird becomes scarce in the northern townships of Ontario. 

 (Rev. C. J. Young.) Rather common, breeding in all suitable woods 

 in the vicinity of London, Ont. In the early nineties I climbed to a 

 nest about fifteen miles west of London, Ont., and the birds have 

 lived in the Vv^oods ever since then when I have been able to visit them, 

 often using the original nest in a sloping oak which I climbed first on 

 April 20th, 1894, and several, times in intervening years and I last 

 climbed it on April 21st, 1906. A series of eight sets of eggs taken in 

 eight different years, nearly all consecutive, shows plainly the life of 

 three different females in that period. (W. Saunders.) 



3396. Red -bellied Hawk. 



Buteo Hneaius elegans (Cass.) Ridgw. 1874. 



Not very common. I have taken it at Burrard inlet, B.C. Mr. 

 W. B. Anderson found it at Port Simpson, B.C., and Mr. Brooks 



