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Genus Pandion. Savigny. 



113. American Osprey. (Fish Hawk.) P. haliaetus 



carolinensis. (Gmel.) 



" Transient Visitant," common. The osprey is a 

 visitant to the St. Lawrence river here on the break- 

 ing up of the ice in the spring of the year, and is 

 occasionally shot between the Lachine Rapids and 

 Nun's Island, but is oftener shot at Chambly Basin 

 and along the Richelieu river, and our taxidermists 

 receive many specimens to stuff. I saw one Sep- 

 tember 1, 1892, near Jones' Island, in Lake of Two 

 Mountains, and several there between the 24th and 

 30th of April, 1893, one of which I shot on the 

 28th of April, and which weighed 4 Jibs, and meas- 

 ured 5 feet 5 inches in extent of wings. 



Family Bubonidce. Horned Owls, etc. 



Genus Asio. Brisson. 



Subgenus "Asio." 



114. American Long-eared Owl. A. wilsonianus. 



(Less.) 



" Transient Visitant," scarce. Specimens occa- 

 sionally received by our taxidermists to stuff. Mr. 

 Craig took four eggs of this species out of a crow's 

 nest in a fir-tree in the woods at Hochelaga, about 

 twenty-five years ago, and he shot one of the parent 



