484 Mr. C. B. Horsbrugb on the Birds of Alix, [Ibis, 



of a small wood. It beld tbree handsome eggs, which I took 

 on 18 June, 1915. The structure was not bulky, and was 

 placed about twelve feet above the ground. On 31 July, 

 1916, I shot an immature specimen on the same spot where 

 I hunted for a nest in May but without success, close to the 

 town (Red Deer). I saw others in the woods near my house 

 on 5 August, all very noisy though not shy. I witnessed 

 one stoop at a Kingfisher, which it hustled along for a short 

 distance. 



Astur atricapillus atricapillus. Goshawk. Mr. T. Pinnell, 

 of Alix, presented me with an immature male shot on his 

 farm on 27 February, 1915 ; and I saw two Goshawks close 

 to Red Deer on 7 November, and a pair on 19 December 

 near my house. This species seems fairly common. I re- 

 ceived five of these birds between September and November 

 1916, one being an immature of the same season's hatching. 



Buteo borealis calurus. Red-tailed Hawk. Close to the 

 village of Tees, I noticed on 23 March, 1915, several large 

 Hawks. My notes for 17 April state '"' Hawks numerous " — 

 evidently returning with spring, and probably of the above 

 species. On 29 April I found a nest being built near 

 Mirror ; and the pair of birds which nested close to the 

 house last year built again in the same wood, but the tree 

 was too difficult to climb. I secured a fine (male), melanistic 

 phase of this Hawk near Alix on 8 October, 1914; also 

 another male of the light variety on 13 October, 1914. The 

 first Hawk of this species appeared on 5 April, 1916, flying 

 over the town, and eight more on the 15th circling high. 

 1 found a nest on the 19th in a balm-tree {Baisamia balsami- 

 fera), about 30 feet from the ground, holding a clutch of 

 three well-marked eggs. I collected these on the 26th. 

 During a brief visit to Dried Meat Lake, near Camrose, 

 I found another nest on 19 May with two pale eggs in 

 a slender poplar tree growing at the edge of some uncleared 

 land, and it was built about 12 feet from the ground. 

 A large sheet of ' The Edmonton Journal ' had been fixed 

 into the structure and was very conspicuous at a considerable 



