from the Alix and Buffalo Lake Districts. 683 



mewing like European Buzzards. I shot a male, heavy 

 in moult, on September 26. The crop contained a partly 

 digested squirrel. 



Aquila chrysaetos. Golden Eagle. 



This bird seems to be fairly common, as I saw a good 

 many in various taxidermists' shops and hotels at Calgary and 

 Edmonton. At Mirror a youth has a magnificent specimen 

 which was wounded at Spotted Lake about a year ago. 

 I observed a Golden Eagle feeding on a rabbit within a few 

 hundred yards of the house on October 20. 



Haliaetus leucocephalus leucocephalus. Bald Eagle. 



Whilst at Bufialo Lake, on May 19, a farmer showed me 

 a very fine specimen of this species he had picked up from 

 a nest which a gale had blown down, together with the 

 whole tree, four years ago. During the present year it has 

 assumed the white head and tail, which even yet are not so 

 pure as is attained by more adult specimens. 



Mr. George Cook brought me an immature female shot 

 at Buffalo Lake on September 28. The spread of wings 

 measured seven feet two incheSj and the crop was filled with 

 fish. 



Falco sparverins sparverius. Sparrow-Hawk. 



A common summer visitant. I saw one investigating the 

 nesting-site of the Buffel-headed Duck I found close to the 

 barn (see note re Buffel-head). A single bird first seen 

 near Alix on May 6. 



Asio wilsonianus. Long-eared Owl. 



On May 24; I went to Haunted Lakes, where Mr. H. 

 Hickling showed me an old hawk's nest tenanted by a pair 

 of Great Horned Owls. Below this nest I found the legs of 

 a Loiig-eared Owl which had been picked by a young well- 

 fledged youngster of the larger species. 



I received a male bird on September 26 and another on 

 the 13th of following month. 



