. The birds of New Englandand adjacent states: containing descriptions of the birds of New England ... together with a history of their habitats ... ; with illustrations of many species of the birds, and accurate figures of their eggs . pecker that it hadjust captured. _ Dr. Richardson, in his Fauna Boreali-Americana, says that, when the hunters are shootinggrouse, this bird is occasionally attracted by the report of 80 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. the gun, and is often bold enough, on a bird being killed,to pounce down upon it, though unable, from its size, tocarry it off, Tlie Hawk Owl occasional
. The birds of New Englandand adjacent states: containing descriptions of the birds of New England ... together with a history of their habitats ... ; with illustrations of many species of the birds, and accurate figures of their eggs . pecker that it hadjust captured. _ Dr. Richardson, in his Fauna Boreali-Americana, says that, when the hunters are shootinggrouse, this bird is occasionally attracted by the report of 80 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. the gun, and is often bold enough, on a bird being killed,to pounce down upon it, though unable, from its size, tocarry it off, Tlie Hawk Owl occasionally breeds in New friend, George A. Boardmanof Milltown, Me., has been so for-tunate as to find its nest, witheggs, in that neighborhood. Itusually builds in a hollow tree,but sometimes constructs a habi-tation in the crotch of a tall tree,of sticks, grass, and to Richardson, it laystwo white globular eggs. Two beautiful specimens in mycollection, from William Couper,Esq., Quebec, collected at Nortli-ern Labrador by the MontanazIndians, are a trifle more elongated and pointed than theeggs of the Red Owl {/Scops asio). They are of a pure-white color, and measure by inch and NOTES. I append the following notes, that have been kindly fur-nished me by William Couper, of Quebec, Lower Canada,for the purpose of showing the northern distribution of thebirds of prey described in the preceding pages: — HTPOTRIOECHIS COLUMBARIUS. — Only young specimens occur, andthose rarely, in the latitude of Quebec: they are more common toward thewestern portions of Lower and Upper Canada. It has not, to my knowledge,been found breeding in Canada. TINNUNCULUS SPARVERIUS. — This species is more abundant than thepreceding; but the majority of the specimens shot in the neighborhood ofQuebec are young. I am informed that it breeds in the vicinity of the riverSt. Maurice, which falls into the river St. Lawrence, west of Quebec. i NOTES. 81 AST
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