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of Volume III. of the " Land Birds of North America." We 

 certainly observed very few individuals, and we found but 

 one nest, that referred to in the same paragraph, on the 19th 

 of July, 1862, near Lockhart Eiver, on the route between 

 Fort Andeiison and Fort Good Hope. It was built on a pine 

 spruce tree at a height of about twenty feet, and was com- 

 posed of twigs and mosses thinly lined with down and 

 feathers. It contained two eggs and two young birds, both 

 of which had lately died. The female rose at our approach 

 and flew to another tree at some distance, where she was shot. 

 Sir John Eichardson says : " This imposing bird, which was 

 first described from an example from Hudson Bay, is by no 

 means a rare bird in the North-West Territory, being an 

 inhabitant of all the wooded districts lying between Lake 

 Superior and latitude 67° or 68°, and between Hudson Bay 

 and the Pacific. It is common on the borders of Great Bear 

 Lake, and there and in the higher parallels of latitude, must 

 pursue its prey during the summer months by daylight. It 

 keeps, however, within the woods and does not frequent the 

 Barren Grounds." 



Professor Macoun has noted that a specimen (No. 32, 

 306) in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington was 

 obtained by Mr. James McKenzie of the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 panj-, at Moose Factory, James Bay, Hudson Bay. The 

 type specimen is from a set of two collected by Mr. James 

 Sibbiston of the Hudson's Bay Company, near Fort Yukon, 

 Alaska, in April, 1864. The Museum of the Dominion at 

 Ottawa contains two fine bird specimens, but no eggs ! Both 

 specimens were procured at Toronto, Ontario, by Mr. S. 

 Herring. 



As these Notes have expanded beyond what had been 

 anticipated, they will now close with an extract from the 

 Preface to Part I. of Professor Macoun's " Catalogue of 

 Canadian Birds," while certain references to the sad 

 fate of the celebrated Admiral Sir John Franklin, — after 

 whom, in 1826, the eminent naturalist, Sir John Eichardson, 

 named the fine bay (Franklin) so frequently referred to as 

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