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men of this species was shot at Cape Farewell, Greenland, on 3rd 
May, 1875, which is now in the collection of the Public Museum 
at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Bendire, Vol. 1., 304.) 
359.1. Kestrel, 
Falco tinnunculus, LINN. 1758. 
One said to have flown on board ship off Cape Farewell, south 
of Greenland, on Parry’s first return voyage, and killed. (Arctic 
Manual.) 
360. American Sparrow Hawk. 
Falco sparverius, LINN. 1858. 
Dr. Coues saw a single individual of this species in Labrador. 
It is not rare in Newfoundland, and breeds in Nova Scotia, Prince 
Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. By many 
observers its occurrence in small numbers and breeding is re- 
corded. Dr. R. Bell took a male at York Factory, Hudson Bay. 
Thompson-Seton shows the species to be very plentiful in Mani- 
toba, and the writer’s own observations and those of Mr. Spread- 
borough give the same result for the whole prairie region includ- 
ing Assiniboia and Alberta. It is acommon species in the valleys 
of the Rocky Mountains at Banff and westward. Abundant at 
Revelstoke,on the Columbia,where it was first seen in 1890, on April 
oth. Later it became quite plentiful and was abundant down the 
Columbia to Robson. This species is abundant westward through 
British Columbia, but doubtless becomes mixed with the desert 
sparrow hawk in the country around Lake Okanagan. Mr. 
Fannin reports it common on the coast and Vancouver Island. 
Richardson places its northern limit in Lat. 54°, but Ross 
found it as far north in the Mackenzie River valley as Lapierre’s 
House, though rather rare. In Alaska it is very rare, as Nel- 
son says only one specimen was known until Krause found them 
numerous on Chilcat River near the end of August. 
BREEDING Notres.—This is the commonest of our small hawks 
and breeds every year in suitable places in eastern Ontario. It 
selects a hole, usually a flicker’s, in a dead pine or some other 
tree, and lays its eggs about 15th May. I have seen the young 
able to fly in July. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Breeds in Toronto, Ont., 
and around the city, as well as in the Parry Sound District. 
