Bird- Life in Labrador. 45 



" One specimen found at Dead Island Harbor." I have no 

 doubt but that the bird is more or. less common in various lo- 

 calities all along the coast. I do not believe it to be a rare 

 bird in Labrador. 



COOPER'S HAWK 



Accipiter cooperi. Bi*. 



I SAW the tail of a Cooper's hawk in the possession of one of 

 the natives, a few miles in the interior up Esquimaux River. 

 He called the bird the " partridge hawk," and said that it was 

 a particular enemy of the partridges and ptarmigan. He did 

 not regard it as at all rare. It also probably breeds. 



LABRADOR GYRFA^CON 



Falco gyrfalco. L. obpoletus. 



OF this same species my notes say : saw the bird and have 

 no doubt but that he had a nest on an inaccessible crag near 

 the house, but was unable to obtain it. I, at various times, 

 saw several hawks in the dim distance that I, at the time, had 

 a very strong suspicion might have been this rare bird. I be- 

 lieve I must have seen it on several occasions. The one men- 

 tioned had his nest quite near our house, and we several times 

 queried, very strongly, as to whether or no we could not reach 

 the nest, the edges of which we could see way above us on a 

 crag that apparently could be reached neither from above nor 

 below, with ropes and ladders ; but the actual attempt was too 

 foolhardv for the enthusiasm of any of us or all combined, and 

 so we gave it up. 



PIGEON HAWK 



Falco e&fumhariu*. L. 



PROBABLY more common on the Gulf coast than either in 

 the Straits or beyond. It does not appear to be uncommon 



