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ern birds are forced to drift southward during severe winters and 

 wander about in search of a food supply. Deep snows and periodic 

 scarcity of game make it hard for them to get a living. Lucien M. 

 Turner says in his notes that it is very rare in northern Labrador 

 and Ungava at any season, but occasionally a specimen "may be seen 

 during the moderate periods occurring in winter." A. D. HenderBon 

 (1920) shot a golden eagle in northern Alberta in January 1907 and 

 says : "The number of Eagles in the country that winter both Golden 

 and Bald-headed, the Golden Eagle predominating, would hardly be 

 believed unless actually witnessed. Every little muskeg had one or 

 two and some four or five of the great birds perched on stubs or 

 soaring overhead, all living on the rabbits which were present in 

 thousands. Eagles and Eavens were a great nuisance to the trappers 

 that winter, destroying many fine skins. The following winter you 

 could walk many miles without crossing a rabbit track and the birds 

 and animals of prey had departed." 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — The golden eagle is a circumpolar species of the Hol- 

 arctic regions, ranging from northern Alaska, Ungava, the British 

 Isles, Lapland, northern Russia, Siberia, and Kamchatka south to 

 Lower California, central Mexico, North Carolina, northern Africa, 

 Asia Minor, Persia, southern Tibet (Himalaya Mountains), Korea, 

 and Japan. This outline represents the combined ranges of several 

 subspecies, only one of which {A. c. canadensis^ is found in North 

 America. 



The range in North America extends north to Alaska (Solomon, 

 Fort Yukon, probably rarely near Point Barrow, and possibly 

 Demarcation Point) ; Mackenzie (Fort Good Hope, Franklin Bay, 

 Horton River, and McTavish Bay) ; northern Saskatchewan (Stone 

 River) ; Manitoba (Hell Gate Gorge) ; and probably rarely the 

 Ungava Peninsula (Fort Chimo). East to probably rarely Ungava 

 (Fort Chimo) ; probably rarely Labrador (Lake Michikamau) ; 

 Quebec (Anticosti Island); possibly Prince Edward Island; Nova 

 Scotia (Colchester Island) ; formerly Maine (Sandj^ River Moun- 

 tain) ; formerly New Hampshire (North Conway) ; formerly New 

 York (West Point) ; formerly southeastern Pennsylvania (Lancas- 

 ter County); and western North Carolina (Weaverville). South 

 to North Carolina (Weaverville) ; eastern Tennessee (Mount Le 

 Conte and Chilhowee Mountain) ; Texas (probably Kerrville, Rock- 

 springs, probably Comstock, probably the Chisos Mountains, and 

 % Terlindua) ; Nuevo Leon (Monterrey) ; Durango (Cuidad) ; prob- 

 "" ably Chihuahua (San Luis Springs) ; probably Sonora (San Ber- 

 nardino River); and northern Lower California (San Quentin). 



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