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CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 271 
1891. (Fannin.) Rare at Chilliwack; most probably breeds ; 
rare in winter at Lake Okanagan, B.C. (Bvooks.) One shot at 
Vernon, B. C., was mounted by Mr. Pound last year, 1891. 
( Rhoads.) 
BREEDING Nortes.—I should not say that this owl was in 
‘“creat abundance” in the Anderson region, as inadvertently 
stated on page 33, Vol. III. of the Land Birds. We certainly ob- 
served very few specimens, and we found but one nest, that 
referred to in the same paragraph, on the 19th July, 1862, near 
Lockhart River, on the route to Fort Good Hope. It was built 
on a spruce tree at a height of about twenty feet, and was com- 
posed of twigs and mosses thinly lined with feathers and down. 
It contained two eggs and two young, both of which had lately 
died. The female left the nest at our approach and flew to 
another tree at some distance, where she was shot. (Jacfarlane.) 
During the winter of 1895-96 Mr. Dippie and myself received 
over a dozen of these birds in the flesh that were shot in Alberta. 
We also received about 50 American hawk owls in the flesh that 
same winter. Settlers informed me that the whole of Alberta 
swarmed with owls and they remained until April when all 
migrated north except one pair of great grey owls’ which 
remained and nested in the Red Deer River district, and Mr. 
Dippie secured the eggs along with the parent whichis probably 
the only record of this bird ever nesting as far south,as its summer 
home is along Great Bear Lake and northward. It breeds at the 
mouth of the Mackenzie River, Arctic America, making a nest of 
sticks and weeds in the highest spruce trees it can find. (W. 
Raine.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two fine specimens. Both were procured at Toronto, Ont., by 
Mr.S. Herring. 
370a. Lapp Owl. 
Scotiaptex cinerea lapponica (RETzZ.) RipGw. 1887. 
A single specimen of this species was taken in the Yukon 
Delta, on April 15th, 1876, and sent to me. It is said to be quite 
pare. (Zzner.) 
