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189. Coturnicops noveboracensis. Yellow Rail. — Mr. Farley 

 says, — " I know of a swamp at Red Deer where a pair nested several 

 years. Their note is just like two stones knocked together quickly. 

 There is also a pair in a swamp just off our farm (Camrose) where I can 

 depend upon hearing them every June." 



(42). Macrorhamphus griseus. Dowitcher. — In the previously 

 published part of the list, antea, p. 12, under this species heading I made 

 an unfortunate slip of the pen when I said that Horsbrough ascribes this 

 " probably incorrectly to the western race, M. g. scolopaceus." It should 

 have read " the eastern race, M. g. griseus, which makes my implied criti- 

 cism more intelligible. Fleming sends me measurements of a Buffalo 

 Lake bird, August 1915, which he refers to griseus though he says the color 

 characters tend towards scolopaceus. I infer from his remarks that this 

 is an adult and not a juvenile bird. 



190.* Pisobia bairdi. Baird's Sandpiper. — We have a specimen 

 taken by Anderson, Many Island Lake, September 18, 1918. 



191. Pelidna alpina. Red-backed Sandpiper. — Mr. Farley reports 

 " Black-heart Plover " May 11, 1899 at Red Deer. This is an old South 

 Ontario name for this species. 



(47). Bartramia longicauda. Upland Plover. — Farley notes that 

 this species is rapidly disappearing from this section, a condition he called 

 attention to in the Ottawa Naturalist XXVII, 1913, p. 63. He now lays 

 the blame upon the boys who find it a too easy object of sport through the 

 summer. 



(50). Numenius longicauda. Long-billed Curlew. — Farley sub- 

 stantiates the hypothetical identity of this species reported by Horsbrough 

 and Sternberg, recording it from both Red Deer and Camrose. 



(51). Squatarola squatarola. Black-bellied Plover. — Chara- 

 drius dominicus. Golden Plover. — -J. H. Fleming writes me that he 

 has the specimens that Horsbrough records as Golden Plover and that 

 they prove to be Black-bellies. Thus the Golden should be replaced by 

 the Black-bellied in the authenticated list. 



192. Buteo platypterus. Broad-winged Hawk. — Fleming informs 

 me he has a specimen, Little Hay Lake, (near Camrose) September 2, 1918. 



Falco rusticolus. Gyrfalcon. — J. H. Fleming tells me he has the 

 specimen reported under this head by Horsbrough which he regards as 

 rusticolus. 



193. Aquila chrysaetos. Golden Eagle. — Farley reports, — " seen 

 nearly every November at Red Deer. 



(78). Bubo virginianus. Great Horned Owl. — Sonema, 5th line 

 second paragraph should be " Lousana." 



194. Nyctea nyctea. Snowy Owl. — Farley remarks in letter of 

 November 18, 1918, from Camrose, — " A friend saw a Snowy Owl yester- 

 day," thus giving evidence for the inclusion of this species of undoubted 

 occurrence. 



