KAL("ONin.K-T[IH FALCONS. 151 



Dr. TTi'i'nimnii otico loiiiid one nf thosi- l)inls Just proitariii},' tn reed <mi ii 

 lui'jj;e and iilniiiii Cidil'niniii I'mlridnc. 



In Tiiiiiiudi|iiis, Mcxicd, wlic'i'o l.iiMilciiiinl Cnmli Imind it (|nilt' (•(tiiiiiKHi, 

 he si)eiik8 dl' it a.s lieiu',' very iiuiot, tlyin.i,' hut littli', and ;,'('nfmlly watcliini,' 

 lor ilH quiiny IVoni llic Hud) of a dry live. Mr. Audnlutn luakcs no URMiliiai 

 ul' any iicculiaritics of lialats. Mr. Nuttall was cvidiMitly uid'andliar with 

 it, statinj,' it to W. unknown in Ntiw Kujilaud, and a nsidrnt of tin? Siaithcru 

 States oidy. 



Tn Nova Scolia, Mr. Pownos spoaks of it as common, hrctidinj,' in all the 

 woocU'd parts of tlio country. It is .said to \>v. not tronlilcsoinn to tiu! tarmcr, 

 hut to i'cod tipoii till) smaller hird.s. lie nuuitions tiiat onct', on his voyago 

 to ]!oston, one of these hirds Hew ahoard and allowed itstdf to ho ea])tured, 

 and was kejjt alivo and fed readily, hut soon after i-scaped. 



Mr. r>. li. Iloss, in his notes on the hirds and nests olitaiiied liy him in tho 

 country al)0ut Fort licsolution, Laijierro lIou.se, and (iood Hope, mentions 

 this hird as the mo.st common of the true Falcons in tiiat district, where it 

 raujfes to the Arctic coast. Its r.est is said to ho compo.sed of .sticks, <,Tass, 

 and moss, and to he huilt generally in a tJdck tree, at no great elevation. 

 Tiie eggs, ho adds, are from live to .sovou in nund)er, l.dO inclio.s in length 

 hy 1.20 in hreadth. Their ground-color he doscrilies as a light roddisIi-hu(l', 

 clouded with dee]) chocolate and reddish-hrown hlotches, nuire thickly 

 spread at tho larger end of tho egg, where the timler tint is almost entirely 

 concealed hy them. This description is given from three eggs procui'otl with 

 their parent at Vnri llesolution. 



From Mr. ^facl-'arlane's notes, made from his ohsorvatious in the Anderson 

 (liver (jountry, we gatlmr that one nest was found on the ledge of a clill' of 

 shaly mud on the hanks of the Anderson liiver ; another nest was on a pine- 

 tree, eight or nine feet from the ground, and composed of a few dry willow- 

 twigs and some half-decayed hay, etc. It was within two huntlred yards of 

 tho river-hank. A third nest was in the midst of a small husliy hnincli of a 

 pine-tree, anil was ten feet from the ground. It was composed of coarse 

 hay, lined with some of a finer (piality, lait was far from lieiugwell arranged. 

 .Mr. AlacFaiTano was Cv nlident that it had never heon used hel'ore hy a (.'row 

 or hy any other hird. The oviduct of the female contained an egg ready to 

 he laid. It was colored like the others, hut the shell was still soft, and ad- 

 hered to the fingers on heing touched. In another instance the eggs were 

 found on a ledge of .shale in a cliiV on the hank, without anything under 

 them in the way of lining. He adds that they are even more ahundant 

 along the hanks of the Mclven/.ie than on the Anderson liiver. 



Mr. ^lacFarlane narrates that on the 2r)tli of May an Indian in his em- 

 ploy found a nest plaeeil in the midst of a pine hraucli, six I'oet from the 

 ground, loosely made of a few dry sticks and a small (puintity of coai-se hay. 

 It then coiitainetl two eggs. Both parents were seen, hut when fired at were 

 missed. On the olst he revisited the nest, which still contained only two 



