260 NOTES ON NOVA SCOTIAN ZOOLOGY PIERS. 



N. S., on the 9th of the month. The species is very rare about 

 Halifax, although 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 i r j 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 OWL (Surnia ulula caparoch). This owl 

 has now become -rare in the province. In the winter of 1S95, 

 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 2;3rd, 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 (Ceophlceus 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 l()th, 1897. 



AMERICAN CROW (Corviis americanus). A curious freak of 

 nature is found in a partially albinistic 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 ; scapulars and feathers of back 

 margined obscurely with whitish ; primaries mostly whitish ; 

 tertials white ; tail feathers light reddish brown (cinnamon 



