CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 281 
BREEDING NoTES.—We have few authentic records of the nesting 
of this bird. 
It breeds every year in the Magdalen islands in the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence, selecting a thick bushy place. (Rev. C. J. Young.) 
A pair built regularly on an island in Lake Joseph, Muskoka, Ont. 
(J. H. Fleming.) This falcon ranges along the Anderson river 
almost to the Arctic coast at Liverpool bay. Several of their nests 
had apparently been built by them on pine trees, and others on the 
ledges of shaly cliffs. The former were composed externally of a 
few dry willow twigs, and internally of withered hay or grass, &c., 
and the latter had only a very few decayed leaves under the eggs. 
I would also mention the following interesting circumstance. On 
May 25th, 1864, a trusty Indian in my employ found a nest placed 
in the midst of a thick branch of a pine tree at a height of about six 
feet from the ground. It was rather loosely constructed of a few 
dry sticks and a small quantity of hay. It then contained two eggs. 
Both parents were seen, fired at and missed. On the 31st he revisited 
the nest which still had two eggs, and again missed the birds. Several 
days later he made another visit thereto, and to his surprise the eggs 
and parents had disappeared. His first impression was that some 
other person had taken them. After looking carefully around he 
perceived both birds at a short distance and this led him to institute 
a search, which soon resulted in finding that the eggs must have been 
removed by the parent birds to the face of a muddy bank at feast 
forty yards distant from the original nest. A few decayed leaves 
had been placed under them, but nothing else in the way of lining. 
A third egg had been added in the interim. There can hardly be 
any doubt of the truth of the foregoing facts. (Macfarlane.) 
I have sets of eggs taken in Muskoka and southern Labrador, also 
others from northern Manitoba and northern Saskatchewan. One 
of the sets was taken at Lake St. Joseph, Muskoka, Ontario, by 
J. D. McMurrick. The nest was built in a tall pine and contained 
four handsome eggs. (W. Raie.) A regular breeding species 
throughout Manitoba and noted at several points between Portage 
la Prairie and Edmonton, Alta., in 1906. (Atkinson.) 
