58 THE BIRDS OF MONTREAL. 



sionally shot on the Island of Montreal late in the 

 fall of the year in immature plumage, the adult 

 bird being scarce here. Mr. Craig has stuffed 

 several of late, but all of them were young birds ; 

 one was shot in the fall of the year 1890 at Oontre- 

 cour, 30 miles below Montreal, and another one 

 about 1st May, 1891, at Beauharnois, 33 miles south 

 west of Montreal, on Lake St. Louis 



Subfamily Falconmce. - 

 Genus Falco. Linnaeus. 

 Subgemus " Hierofalco." Cuvier. 



109. 'White Gyrfalcon. F. islandus. Briinn. 



" Accidental Visitant," rare. Mr. Kuetzingsays 

 he has purchased four examples of this species (?) in 

 the Bonsecours market. I have not heard of any 

 gyrfalcons occurring here in recent years. 



Subgenus "Rhynchodon." Nitzsch. 



110. Duck Hawk. F> peregrinus anatum. (Bonap.) 

 4t Summer Resident," scarce. While out black 



duck shooting in the first week of October, some 

 years ago, on Lake St. Peter, a duck hawk swooped 

 down on the live decoy ducks, breaking the wing 

 bone of one of them, but the ducks evidently saw 

 the hawk coming, as, suddenly uttering loud quacks 

 in alarm, they dived under the water just in time 



