6o BIRDS OF P. E. ISLAND. 



hills. That winged thunderbolt of the Arctic 

 regions, the white - plumed and terrifically power- 

 ful Gyrfalcon, visits us at times, like an electric 

 flash, licking his hapless prey from the crystal 

 fields of winter. 



WILD PIGEON. 

 (Ectopistes migratorhis) 



Only a rare straggler of this once abundant 

 and delicious species of game bird is now to be 

 seen in our well - cultivated country. It is not 

 the want of food, we think, but the destructive 

 propensity of humanity which has frightened away 

 the Pigeons. They were here in great numbers 

 at the early settlement of the country, and they 

 still occasionally appear in large flocks in the 

 neighboring Provinces. 



We have two species of Grouse, the Canada 

 Grouse, or Spruce Partridge, and the Ruffed 



