CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 265 
I have examined about a dozen nests of this bird in northern 
Saskatchewan. It is an early breeder, laying its eggs early in May, 
and building a very large nest in the highest trees it can find. It 
lays from three to five handsomely marked eggs. Most of the 
nests I have examined contained dead gophers, proving that this 
is another useful hawk to the farmer. (W. Razne.) 
This species builds a very large nest and seems to prefer the old 
one to a new structure. All the nests seen were composed of large 
sticks for the body of the nest, then the droppings of horses and 
cattle to consolidate the margins, and lastly lined inside with the 
inner bark of dead box elder and poplar. Two nests were taken on 
27th May, 1895, each had three eggs originally, but in one the young 
were just hatched. Each nest was in the fork of a box elder about 
ten feet from the ground. 
CXLVIII. AQUILA Brisson. 1760. 
349. Golden Eagle. 
Aquila chrysaétos (LINN.) SPRUNGLI. 1776. 
Specimens procured in the Ungava district. Breeds in the north- 
east portions among the hills. A pair also breed at the “Forks” 
in the Ungava district. (Packard.) Saw what I took to be an 
example of this species near the ‘‘Forks’”’ above Ungava. While at 
Fort Chimo, September, 1896, saw the skin of one that the Indians 
had shot a few days before on the river. (Spreadborough.) I ex- 
amined a live specimen in young plumage, captured June 23rd, 1892, 
near New London, Prince Edward island. After visiting the locality 
I am inclined to doubt whether the bird was bred on the island. 
(Dwight.) Not a common bird in Nova Scotia, but breeds there 
and resides throughout the year. (Gilpin.) Rare at Wolfville, N.S. 
(H. F’. Tujts.) Only one specimen known to have been taken in 
New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) Taken at Beauport; a summer 
resident in Quebec. (Dionne.) ‘‘Transient visitant’’ at Montreal; 
rare. Saw a fine specimen of this eagle in the Bonsecours market in 
the month of May, 1891. It was evidently shot near Montreal. 
(Wintle.) A bird of the year of this species was given to me, which 
had been caught in a trap near High Falls, Que., forty miles northeast 
of Ottawa. It measured seventy-seven inches from tip to tip. 
(Rev. G. Exfrig.) 
