208 THe Ottawa NArurRALIsT. [February 
SOME NEW CANADIAN RECORDS FOR GYRFALCONS. 
By J. F. WHITEAVES. 
THE Gray GyrFALcon ( falco rusticolus ). 
Through the kindness of Mr. G. F. Dippie, of the firm of 
Messrs. Mackay & Dippie, taxidermists, etc., of Calgary, the 
Museum of the Geological Survey of Canada has recently been 
enabled to acquire two fine specimens of this species, from 
Alberta. 
One of these is a female, shot in the Knee Hills district, 
about sixty miles north-east of Calgary, by Mr. Alexander Wynd- 
ham, on November i1oth, 1905. Mr. Dippie writes that he ‘‘would 
not be positive, but thinks that this specimen is an adult bird, 
probably three or four years old.” Its measurements, when in the 
flesh, are stated to have been : length twenty-three inches, wing 
fifteen and three-quarters, tail ten. 
The other is a male, supposed to be not more than two 
years old, shot twenty-three miles west of Calgary, by Mr. 
R. G. Robinson, on December oth, 1904. Its measurements be- 
fore it was skinned, were; length twenty-two inches and a half, 
wing fifteen inches and three quarters, tail ten. 
THe BLACK GYRFALCON ( Falco rusticolus, var. obsoletus ). 
Mr. Harold F. Tufts, of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, writes that 
he has a specimen of this dark, eastern variety cf the Gyrfalcon 
that was shot at Long Island, King’s Co., N. S., by Mr O. Ful- 
lerton, on the eighth of June, 1898. ‘It is an immature female, 
and its stomach was empty when the bird was killed. A living 
Black Gyrfalcon was observed near Wolfville by Mr. Tufts on 
December 23rd, 1905. 
In this connection it may be stated that a clutch of three eggs 
that are thought to be those of the Black Gyrfalcon, in the Museum 
of the Geological Survey, was collected at Fort Chimo. Ungava, 
by Mr. G. Boucher in 1897. 
THe WHITE GyrFaLcon ( Falco tslandus ). 
A female of this species, shot on the sand bar south of Ash- 
