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and is apparently occupied year after year by the same birds. 
Each year a fresh layer of dry sticks is laid on top of the old nest 
-and it soon becomes a very bulky structure. The female lays 
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, 1900, 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 top of pine stubs. (Rev. C. J. 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. In 
1904 found a pair breeding at the junction of the Poplar and Moose 
rivers. Nest on the top of a dead spruce about fifty feet from the 
ground. (Spreadborough.) The fish-hawk breeds about four miles 
up Northwest river above Hudson Bay Company’s station, Labrador. 
(Packard.) 
Breeds amongst the lakes of Muskoka, Ont. In June, 1893, we 
shot a specimen at Banff, Rocky mountains, and Mr. Fear informed 
mea pair had a nest behind Tunnel mountain. I have a 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 occasionally 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 whenever they came near the 
nest, but Bayley tells me that the hawks have been with the herons 
for several years. Later I was told of several former colonies, and 
in each case a fish-hawk nested among the herons. (C. Rk. Harte.) 
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. 
