260 NOTES ON NOVA SCOTIAN ZOOLOGY—PIERS. 
N.S., on the 9th of the month. The species is very rare about 
Halifax, althongh in some portions of the Maritime Provinces it 
has been reported rather common. The bird is evidently local 
in distribution. 
Duck Hawk (Falco peregrinus anatum). About 1893, Mr. 
Austen mounted an adult male which had been killed on Devil’s 
Island, at the mouth of Halifax Harbour. The bird is very rare 
in Nova Scotia. Two individuals were taken on McNab’s Island 
in September, 1892, as recorded in “ Notes on Nova Scotian 
Zoology, No. 3.” 
AMERICAN Hawk Own (Surnia ulula caparoch). This owl 
has now become rare in the province. In the winter of 1895, 
Mr. Purcell had four specimens—a most unusual number : a pair 
purchased in the Halifax market on November 16th, probably 
from near Musbuodoboit; one brought in, November 23rd, by 
John Paul, Indian, who had killed it near Salmon River, Halifax 
County ; and another brought to town on December 2nd, from 
West Chester where it had been taken. All were quite fresh 
and had evidently been shot only a day or two before. 
PILEATED WOODPECKER (Ceophleus pileatus). A female was 
shot at Liverpool, N. S.,, on October 17th, 1895 ; another female 
was taken on the Windsor Road, Halifax County, about Nov- 
ember 3rd, 1896; a male was brought to Mr. Purcell on January 
6th, 1897; and a fourth specimen was killed at Oxford, Cumber- 
land Co., about February 10th, 1897. 
AMERICAN Crow (Corvus americanus). <A curious freak of 
nature is found in a partially albinistie Crow which was shot at 
Shad Bay, Halifax Co., on October 6th, 1896. It agreed per- 
fectly with descriptions of normal individuals except in the 
colouring, which may be more particularly described as follows: 
general colour brown (umber brown or light hair-brown), darker 
on throat, cheeks and belly ; seapulars and feathers of back 
margined obscurely with whitish; primaries mostly whitish ; 
tertials white; tail feathers light reddish brown (cinnamon 
