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wick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and westward to the Pacific. 
In its northern range in the Mackenzie River valley it descends 
to the Arctic coast. It is extremely common on the coasts of 
British Columbia and very common in the interior of the province. 
Passing to the north it becomes still more abundant on the 
Aleutian Islands. 
While collecting on the Bay of Chaleurs at Port Daniels near 
Gaspé in August, 1882, I amused myself watching a fish hawk 
trying to supply its young with flat fish caught in the shallow 
. waters of the bay. At some distance from the shore on the margin 
of the forest were a series of large trees that had been killed by fire. 
In a tall one of these an eagle usually stationed himself and kept 
an eye on the hawk. As soon as the hawk caught a fish the eagle 
wouid move out in pursuit and then would commence a series of 
gyrations by both birds. The aim of the eagle was to get above 
the hawk and if he failed to accomplish this the hawk won. If 
the hawk was beaten the eagle would come down on him, the fish 
was dropped, the eagle caught it and each would sail away, the 
eagle to the forest, the hawk to the sea. Day after day this 
performance was repeated and the hawk’s nest was located but 
that of the eagle was not seen. 
In June, 1893, the writer was collecting at Comox, Vancouver 
Island, and observed the same thing to a less extent, but besides 
getting a supply from the hawks the eagle fished for himself. 
Not by diving, however, but by going to stony flats at Cape Lazo 
and fishing for himself. Shallow pools were left when the tide 
was out and in them numerous small fish chiefly under stones. 
We had been collecting seaweeds and small fish and a “ singing 
fish’, we were told, was found there. This fish certainly made a 
booming noise and guided us to its retreat, and numerous speci- 
mens were collected. The eagle seemed to be guided by the 
sound for he, too, obtained specimens under our very eyes. All 
my observations are against this form killing birds. I have seen 
him catch snakes and fish, steal fish from the fish hawk and eat 
carrion, but beyond that I never saw him go. All observers 
report this speeies as breeding near water and it seems to know 
that it is an advantage to build its nest as near the food supply as 
possible. 
BREEDING Notes.—This bird is fast becoming scarce in east- 
ern Ontario. Up to the year 1895 there was a nest every year in 
