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to save themselves from the hawk, which passed so 

 quickly over them that I could not get a shot at 

 this terror of the ducks. The late Mr. Caulfield 

 received a beautiful pair of these hawks to stuff for 

 the museum of the Natural History Society of Mont- 

 real from Mr. N. C. Fisk, of Abbottsford, which 

 were shot May 7, 1890, on Yamaska Mountain, at 

 Abbottsford, about forty miles east of Montreal. 

 Mr. Fisk said this pair of duck hawks had a nest 

 on the western side of the mountain, and he has 

 observed this species there every year for forty 

 years past. He took two eggs of the duck hawk 

 in April, 189 1, there, from under a rocky ledge ; no 

 material was used for the nest, only a slight hollow 

 scratched out by the hawks under a shelving rock. 

 These eggs were presented to the museum of the 

 >Tatural History Society of Montreal by Mr. Fisk, 

 and his son kindly gave me a fine female specimen of 

 the duck hawk, which he shot about April 18, 1892, 

 on Yamaska Mountain, and it is now in my col- 

 lection of bird's skins ; so that it appears the local- 

 ity is a very attractive one for this species for a 

 breeding-place, because when a pair of these hawks 

 are shot there another pair takes their place. Mr. 

 Fisk wrote to me, under date of May 4, 1893, that 

 the hawks were there and had been for some time 

 past, and that he heard them " squeal" to-night for 

 the first time ; and writing again, under date of 

 June 10, 1893, he said his son had shot one of the 



