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just in time to save themselves from the hawk, which 

 passed so quiclvly over them that I could not get a shot at 

 this terror of the ducks. The late Mr. Caulfield received 

 a beautiful pair of these hawks to stuff' for the Museum 

 of the Natural History Society of Montreal, from Mr. IST. 

 C. Fisk, of Abbottsford, which were shot May 7, 1890, on 

 Yamaska Mountain, at Abbottsford, about 40 miles east 

 of Montreal. Mr. Fisk said this pair of duck hawks had 

 a nest on the western side of the mountain, and he has 

 observed this species there every year for forty years past. 

 He took two eggs of the duck hawk in April, 1891, 

 there, from under a rocky ledge ; no material was used 

 for the nest, only a slight hollow scratched out by the 

 hawks under a shelving rock. These eggs were presented 

 to the Museum of the Natural History Society of Mont- 

 real by Mr. Fisk, and his son kindly gave me a fine female 

 specimen of the duck hawk which he shot about April 18, 

 1892, on Yamaska Mountain, and it is now in my collec- 

 tion of birds' skins ; so that it appears the locality is a 

 very attractive one for this species for a breeding-place, 

 because when a pair of these hawks are shot there another 

 pair takes their place. Mr. Fisk wrote to me, under date 

 of May 4, 1893, that the hawks were there and had been 

 for some time past, and that he heard them " squeal " 

 to-night for the first time ; and writing again, under date 

 of June 10, 1893, he said that his son had shot one of the 

 hawks, but could not obtain the other one. He kindly 

 sent me the one shot, which was a beautiful male speci- 

 inen, but, unfortvmately, by the time it reached me it was 

 too much decomposed to have the skin preserved for my 

 collection. 



The specimen above referred to, presented by Mr. Joyce, 

 has been cleverly mounted by A. B. Dumoucliel, taxider- 

 mist, of this city, and has been placed on view in the 

 Society's collection. 



Alfred Griffin, 



Curator. 



