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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 tkis 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. 



