Re'port of the Hon. Treasurer. 265 



Cash Account. 



To Balance on hand June 1st, 1899 $ 162 83 



" Receipts as per Cash Book 1535 29 



" Loans " Bank " 725 30 



By Deposits ■'■ " ■' -. 666 40 



*■' Interest " " " 41 88 



" Disbursements as per Cash Book 1699 46 



" Cash on hand 15 68 



$2423 42 $2423 42 



Bank Account. 



Due Bank 1st June, 1899 492 60 



" " New Loans 725 30 



Paid " on account Loans 666 40 



Due " 31st May, 1900 \.. 551 50 



$1217 90 $1217 90 

 Montreal, May 31st, 1900. " 



Audited and found correct. Joseph Fortier. 



C. T. Williams. 



*$15.68 of this was paid on last year's loans. 



Duck Hawk on Mount Royal. 



Among the many interesting donations to the Natural 

 History Society's Museum during the past year one of the 

 most unique and rare was a a fine spacimen of the Duck 

 Hawk {Falco Peregrinus, variety anahmi), presented by 

 Mr. Alfred Joyce, of Montreal. It was shot during the 

 month of March by one of his employees on Mount Eoyal, 

 and is the first authenticated instance on record of its 

 having been observed in the vicinity of Montreal. 



E. D. Wintle in his " Birds of Montreal " refers to it as 

 follows : — " Summer resident," scarce. While out black 

 duck shooting in the first week of October, some years ago 

 on Lake St. Peter, a duck hawk swooped down on the live 

 decoy ducks, breaking the wing bone of one of thenl, but 

 the ducks evidently saw the hawk coming, as suddenly, 

 uttering loud quacks of alarm, they dived under the water 



