486 Mr. C.B.HoYsbrxigh on the Birds of Alix, [Ibis, 



a bright lemon-yellow, and the bird was in excellent con- 

 dition. Two younger specimens were brought me alive 

 on 30 November and 2 December respectively — one from 

 Pine Lake district and the other closer to the town. The 

 latter was caught in an unbaited trap set on top of a 

 haystack. On 10 January, 1916, I received in the flesh 

 a fine bird weighing 12 lb., shot near Red Deer. A second 

 one was brought me on the 19th, which was secured also 

 near the town, in an unbaited coyote trap placed on top of 

 a haystack. Judging from reports received from different 

 parts of the surrounding country, Eagles, particularly this 

 species, appear to be plentiful, and the taxidermist here 

 told me he had refused many. My specimens were not 

 fully adult, and I found it impossible to ascertain the sex by 

 dissection, which has greatly puzzled me. No doubt the 

 severity of the winter had driven these birds down from 

 the mountains, and it is a great pity so many should have 

 been ruthlessly destroyed. Hares filled the crops of those 

 I preserved. An immature specimen, shot some miles north 

 of the town, was brought me by a neighbour who shot it 

 from off a telegraph-pole. The bullet damaged its interior 

 anatomy so much that I could not discover its sex with 

 certainty. 



Falco rusticolus rusticolus. Grey Gyr-Falcon. I received 

 from my friend, Mr. A. Tomlinson of Calgary, during 

 October, a fine specimen of the Grey Gyr-Falcon obtained 

 last year at Camrose in October. At a taxidermist^s shop 

 in the town I saw another and similar specimen collected 

 about the same date. 



Falco sparverius sparverius. Sparrow-Hawk. I expected 

 to observe this migrant earlier than the date recorded in my 

 notes — 19 April — when one was seen near my house. On 

 6 May a pair had a nest in a hole in a balsam-tree [Populus 

 balsamifera) whose top had fallen off, but the tree was un- 

 climable. On 2 June another pair occupied an old nesting- 

 hole of the Flicker, within half a mile of the former. I 

 received a single egg taken in the vicinity of the town on 



