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distance. I found this nest on 20 May. Red-tailed Hawks 

 seem to be the commonest species almost everywhere. 



Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis. Kough-legged Hawk. 

 A resident brouglit me an immature female Rough-legged 

 Hawk, which was found sitting on a fence-pole near Red 

 Deer ; being injured, it was easily captured. The crop was 

 empty. In the local taxidermist's shop I saw another 

 specimen lately obtained in this district. I flushed a young 

 bird in the woods close to the town on 6 September^ 1916, 

 and saw another, also immature, living in a saloon in the 

 town, which had been picked up slightly injured. 



Buteo swainsoni. Swainson's Hawk. I secured a male 

 Swainson's Hawk on 24 May, 1915, at Buffalo Lake, and 

 another on 16 August, with my rifle, near the same locality, 

 I have a female mounted specimen in the dark phase shot 

 near Alix on 12 September, 1914. 



Haliaetus leucocephalus alascanus. Bald-headed Eagle. 

 One or two reports reached me of Bald-headed Eagles being 

 seen during the spring near Alix, but I could not personally 

 verify them. Whilst visiting Banff, in May, I saw in the 

 Zoological Gardens a magnificent specimen, which I believe 

 had been in captivity for a number of years. Probably 

 before the well-wooded shores of Sylvan Lake became a 

 summer resort for the inhabitants of Red Deer and other 

 towns, the Bald Eagle and Osprey nested undisturbed. 

 Nowadays the latter has long ceased to do so ; but the 

 former still remains, though I was disgusted to find on 

 16 June that the tree holding a huge nest had been wantonly 

 felled. A pair of these grand birds were seen over the lake 

 on 17 June, and I hope they may have nested in safety, as 

 I have friends at the lake who would do much to protect 

 them. 



Aquila chrysaetos. Golden Eagle. I received in the 

 flesh on 17 November, 1915, a splendid female specimen of 

 the Golden Eagle, shot near Prairie Creek. Its crop and 

 stomach contained a partly digested hare. The feet were of 



