244 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
This is a well-distributed summer resident in the counties of 
Renfrew, Leeds and Lanark, in eastern Ontario. It arrives in the 
early part of April and does not leave until October. I have found 
its nest, on several occasions, in marshy places. Once in a small 
marsh, township of Escott, Leeds county, near a public rbad. This 
was on the 22nd May, 1893. The nest contained five eggs almost 
as much spotted as those of the red-shouldered hawk. The nest 
was built on the end of an old log that was partly covered with 
moss and other growth and surrounded by rushes. It was formed 
of sticks, and grass stalks were used for lining. This species breeds 
every year at the head of Wolfe island and lower down the St. 
Lawrence. Its eggs are seldom laid before May 18th in eastern 
Ontario. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Breeds in abundance on the prairies, 
but prefers bushy places for nesting in. Its nest is built on the 
ground, of sticks and lined with coarse grass. Mr. Spreadborough 
found two nests near Medicine Hat in May, 1894. Both were located 
amongst a low growth of snow-berry (Symphoricarpus racemosus) 
and contained four eggs. (Macoun.) 
I have found this bird breeding throughout Manitoba, Saskatche- 
wan and Alberta. It makes its nest on the ground, consisting of 
a heap of marsh hay, and lays from five to seven eggs. I took a 
set of five eggs at Crescent lake, Sask., on June 5th, 1901. I have 
another set of seven eggs taken in northern Alberta, May 24th, 1808. 
(W. Raine.) 
In June, 1865, an Eskimo snared a female bird on her nest in a 
willow bush along the lower Anderson river, about lat. 68° 30’. It 
contained five eggs. In June, 1866, a nest composed of twigs and 
grasses, &c., was found in a similar position; there were six eggs 
in this nest. (Macfarlane.) 
CXLV. ACCIPITER. Brisson. 1760. 
332. Sharp-shinned Hawk. 
Accipiter velox (WILS.) VIGORS. 1824. 
This is one of the commonest hawks we have in the greater part 
of the Dominion. 
Spreadborough saw only one, when exploring, in northern Labra- 
dor, July 8th, 1896. Richardson records the taking of one at 
