60 CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 



Falco richardsonii. 



RICHARDSON'S MERLIN. 



A rare bird along the Pacific coast and on the Prairies. It 

 has been taken as far east as Sault St. Marie. 



Falco sparverius. 



AMERICAN SPARROW HAWK. 



A common summer resident throughout Canada, from the 

 southern boundary to the Hudson's Bay district. 



Pandion haliaetus carolinensis. 



AMERICAN OSPREY. 



This is better known to Canadians as the " Fish Hawk." It 

 is a common summer resident of the sea-coasts and the larger 

 lakes north to the Hudson's Bay district and Alaska, and occurs 

 with more or less regularity everywhere but on the Plains. It 

 winters in northern South America. 



Strix pratincola. 



AMERICAN BARN OWL. 



An accidental straggler from the south. Mr. MC!LWRAITH 

 mentions the occurrence of four examples in Southern Ontario. 



Asio wilsonianus. 



AMERICAN LONG-EARED OWL. 



Occurs in more or less abundance from the Atlantic coast to 

 the Cascade Mountains, and north to the Saskatchewan and the 

 Hudson's Bay district. It is met with in summer, only, in British 

 Columbia and on the Plains, but Mr. NEILSON reports finding it 

 occasionally, in winter, near Quebec, and Mr. DUNLOP has had a 

 similar experience in the vicinity of Montreal. 



