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a tall pine about seven miles east of Gananoque and a mile from 

 the St. Lawrence. There is still (1901) a nest every year near 

 Charleston Lake, about 10 miles from Lansdowne. It also breeds 

 on Simcoe Island, opposite Kingston, Ont. I was present at the 

 taking of its eggs on 28th April, 1900, two in number and almost 

 ready to hatch. As the seventy acres of woodland in which this 

 nest is situated are being cleared of timber it is probable that the 

 bird will shortly be banished from this locality, but it still nests 

 undisturbed on the Duck Islands and Timber Island, Lake Ontario. 

 {Rev. C. J. Young.) 



This species nests regularly, though rarely, along the shores of 

 Lake Erie, and along other large bodies of water in Ontario where 

 the country is not too thickly settled, but I have never heard of 

 nor seen it breeding away from the water. {W. E^ Saunders^ 

 At Shuswap Lake, British Columbia, in July, 1889, I saw a nest 

 in a large cottonwood tree about forty feet from the ground, 

 near the shore of the lake. Nest very large, made of sticks and 

 must have been three feet in diameter. The young were as large 

 at this time as old birds. The young feed a good deal on dead fish 

 that float ashore and also upon carrion. Common throughout Van- 

 couver Island. At Comox shot many specimens both young and 

 old. At this time, June, 1893, they were feeding on the singing 

 fish which they caught from under stones when the tide was out. 

 {Spreadborough^ 



Several nests were found with eggs and young in them on Lock- 

 hart and Anderson rivers. They were built on high trees close to 

 the river banks and composed of dried sticks and branches lined 

 with deer hair, mosses, hay and other soft materials. There were 

 from two to three eggs in each nest. In one instance the parents 

 made hostile demonstrations when their nests were being robbed, 

 but they generally flew away and kept at a safe distance. They 

 are not very numerous, and it is very doubtful if any breed to the 

 northward of Fort Anderson. Lat. 69° 30'. {Macfarlane.) 



This bird nests in Muskoka and in northern Alberta. I have 

 six clutches of eggs, some of which were taken in northern 

 Ontario and the others in northern Alberta. {W. Raine.) May 

 l6th, 1897, a set of two partly incubated eggs was taken from a 

 nest on Raza Island, Toba Inlet, Gulf of Georgia, B.C., by Charles 

 Collier. The nest was in a tree about go feet from the ground. 

 It was at least 4 feet across and built of sticks. In the middle on 



