284 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
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 sparvertus 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. Its occur- 
rence in small numbers and breeding is recorded by many observers. 
Dr. R. Bell took a male at York Factory, Hudson bay, and Preble 
saw it at several points between Lake Winnipeg and Hudson bay. 
Spreadborough observed it from Missinabi north to Moose Factory. 
Seton, Atkinson and Criddle say that it is 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, including 
Saskatchewan and Alberta. It is a common 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 9th. 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 Spreadborough 
found it to be common between Lesser Slave lake and the Peace 
river, Atha., and Ross saw it as far north in the Mackenzie river 
valley as Lapierre House, though rather rare. In Alaska it is very 
rare, as Nelson says only one specimen was known until Krause 
found them numerous on Chilcat river near the end of August. 
Bishop saw this bird, however, at several places along the Yukon 
river, between Log Cabin and Circle. 
BREEDING NotTes.—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, 
