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the Bald Eagle has every opportunity of tyrannizing over the Fish 

 Hawks, and competing them to drop the fish they have just caught. 

 On the inland waters of Ontario, the Bald Eagle is of less frequent 

 occurrence, and the Osprey is allowed to enjoy the results of his. 

 industry in peace. 



The Fish Hawks arrive in Ontario as soon as the ice breaks up in 

 the spring, and are soon distributed throughout the country. Here 

 and there in Ontario and elsewhere, a pair will settle and remain 

 for the summer, but many of them do not slack in their northern 

 flight till they are within the Arctic circle, where they rear their 

 young on the banks of the clear streams of the interior, and along: 

 the Yukon River in Alaska. Only one brood is raised in the 

 season, and in the fall they again work their way south, calling at 

 many intermediate stations. In Southern Ontario they are seen 

 during October, but continue their southern route by easy stages, till 

 many of them reach the West Indies and northern South America, 

 where they soon again prepare for the spring trip. Fish are pro- 

 tected by a law which ordinary fishers are bound to respect, but this 

 Hawk lives on fish and nothing else, and he takes the sort he can get 

 without regard to the season of the year. On this account he has 

 been placed on Dr. Fisher's black list, in Class d, of which the evil 

 deeds exceed the good ; but in Ontario I feel sure that the vote would 

 be to let him take all he requires, in consideration of the additional 

 attraction his splendid presence gives to the scenery of many a lake 

 and river throughout the Province. 



