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two or more eggs. A nest found at Lake of Islands north of 
Ottawa, Ont., would be nearly six feet across and is apparently 
made of large ‘sticks, weeds, cornstalks and bark. (Geo. R. 
White.) 
This bird is becoming very scarce along the St. Lawrence. 
During the last ten years I have only seen a few examples. A 
nest was found on May 23rd, I1g00, at Gananoque Lake, built on 
top of a large broken pine, which contained three eggs. This is 
the only case I know of its breeding in the County of Leeds, 
Ont., but I formerly saw its nest frequently in the counties of 
Lanark and Renfrew, built on the top of pinestubs. (Rev. C./. 
Young.) Generally distributed in the Muskoka and Parry Sound 
districts. I met with a nest in the centre of a heronry in Parry 
Sound. (J. H. Fleming.) 
Three specimens were observed on Moose River near Moose 
Factory, James Bay, June 7th, 1896. A pair were breeding in the 
top of a dead spruce tree. None were observed further north. 
(Spreadborough.) The fish-hawk breeds about four miles up 
Northwest River} above Hudson Bay Company’s station, 
Labrador. (Packard.) 
An abundant summer resident throughout British Columbia. 
Its nest is usually on the broken top of a tree, not far from water. 
(Fannin.) Common throughout Vancouver Island. Nest very 
bulky and generally placed on the broken top of a tall dead tree. 
I have seen a few nests, however, on living trees. The food of 
this species consists principally of fish. I have watched them, 
after flying slowly over a shallow bay, stop and hover for a few 
seconds, then close their wings and drop like a meteor upon some 
luckless fish which they seldom fail in catching. On a few occa- 
sions I have seen them with snakes. Their nest is a huge heap of 
sticks, usually placed on the top of a tall stub, scarcely ever less 
than fifty feet from the ground. (Spreadborovgh.) 
Breeds amongst the lakes of Muskoka, Ont. In June, 1893, we 
shot a specimen at Banff, Rocky Mountains, and Mr. Fear in- 
formed me a pair had a nest behind Tunnel Mountain. I havea 
series of 200 eggs of the osprey and they are the most handsome 
of all hawk’s eggs; this bird usually lays three eggs, but occa- 
sionally four. (W. Raine.) Almost invariably there is a fish- 
hawk nesting with the great blue heron at Sydney, Cape Breton 
Island. At the heronry I visited, the hawks chased the herons 
