268 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



In the spring of 1891 Mr. Hine of Winnipeg found this noble 

 bird breeding in a cliff on the Winnipeg river. In June, 1893, I 

 saw a golden eagle at Morley in Alberta and was informed a pair 

 nested in the Rocky Mountain foothills. My collection contains 

 thirty-six eggs of this eagle collected in California and Montana. 

 It lays two eggs, sometimes three, and some are very heavily marked, 

 like buzzard's eggs. (W. Raine.) 



CXLIX. HALI-ffilETUS Savigny. 1809. 

 351. Gray Sea Eagle. 



HalicBetus albicilla (Linn.) Leach. 18 16. 



General in Greenland; has been taken in many places. {Herluf 

 Winge.) Inhabits generally and breeds in the whole of Danish 

 Greenland, including the eastern coast. Its northern range not 

 as yet determined. {Arct. Man.) A common resident at Ivigtut, 

 Greenland, and breeds there; more common in winter. (Hag- 

 erup.) Lieut. Satterlee of the Corwin found a dead bird of this 

 species at Unalaska, Oct. 5th, 1899, which proved to be a young 

 female. In a small collection of bird skins bought in the fall of 

 1903 by Dr. D wight and myself from Mr. Fred. Foster, a taxider- 

 mist in Victoria, B.C., we found a single specimen of this species in 

 first winter plumage. It was taken on the coast of Vancouver 

 island, March i8th, 1898. The range of this bird is thus extended 

 almost to Washington, and it seems probable that it will yet be found 

 breeding in Alaska or the Aleutian islands. (Bishop.) 



Breeding Notes. — At Ivigtut, Greenland, Mr. Hagerup, obtained 

 a clutch of eggs on May 15th that had been taken from the nest 

 two weeks previously; they had been sat upon about one week. 

 On June loth another clutch was secured that had been taken about 

 three weeks before, and these were almost wholly incubated. It is 

 probable that nests with fresh eggs can be found in April. (Chamber- 

 lain in The Auk, Vol. VI., 292.) 



I have a set of three eggs taken at Godthaab, Greenland, April 

 20th, 1898; the nest was built on the ledge of a sea cUfif. I have 

 another set of two eggs taken in south Greenland, June 15th, 1890. 

 (W. Raine.) 



