CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. Smit 
the large marshes as a temporary home when it comes to southern 
Ontario, doubtless on account of their resemblance to the treelesg 
regions to which itis accustomed. (W.E.Saunders.) This beautiful 
bird may be seen close to my house at Kew Beach, Toronto, almost 
every day in the winter, but they are very wary. They perch on 
the ice,floes along the beach and keep out of gun range. My neigh- 
bour, Mr. Harold Douglas, shot one November 28th, tr901. When 
wounded they are very ferocious and a dog is afraid to attack them 
as they throw themselves on their backs and strike out rapidly with 
their sharp, strong claws, and woe to the dog that gets his face struck 
by the claws of a wounded white owl. This bird breeds within the 
Arctic Circle. (W. Raine.) In his paper on the snowy owl pub- 
lished in The Auk, Vol. XIX., p. 271 et seqg., Mr. Ruthven Deane 
gives an account of the unusual abundance of this bird in Canada 
during the 1901-2 migration. 
A tolerably common winter resident in Manitoba. It arrives 
early in autumn and leaves in April. (E£. T. Seton.) Has become 
very rare at Aweme, Man., in recent years, probably on account of 
its being invariably shot when chance offers. (Criddle.) Abundant 
from Norway House to Hudson bay in winter. (Dy. R. Bell.) One 
seen April rst and the last on April 20th at Indian Head, Sask., in 
1892. (Spreadborough.) A regular and in some seasons an ex- 
ceptionally abundant winter resident throughout the west but not 
known to have been noted during the breeding season. (Atkinson.) 
This highly beautiful and powerful bird is common in the more 
northern parts of America. It frequents in summer the most arctic 
lands and hunts in the day as indeed it has to do. When I have 
seen it on the Barren Grounds it was generally squatting on the earth, 
and if put up it alighted after a short flight. It preys on lemmings, 
hares and birds. It makes its nest on the ground and generally 
lays four eggs. (Richardson.) North to Fort Norman; rare. (Ross.) 
This species is not plentiful in the Anderson country and we never 
secured an egg. (Macfarlane.) Not unfrequently seen near the 
entrance to the Fraser river. (Lord.) Resident in the northern 
portions of the province; south during some winters only, to the 
mouth of the Fraser and Vancouver island. (Fannin.) An ir- 
regular migrant at Chilliwack, B.C.; occasionally seen in winter at 
Lake Okanagan, B.C.; several mounted specimens were in the 
Cariboo district. (Brooks.) Taken at Skidegate and Masset, Queen 
