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CXXVI. AQUILA Brisson. 1760. 

 ■^349. Golden Eagle. 



Aquila chrysaetos (Linn.) Dumont. 1816. 



Specimens procured in the Ungava District. Breeds in the 

 northeast 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. {Spread- 

 borough.) Not a common bird in Nova Scotia, but breeds there 

 and resides throughout the year. {Gilpin.) Only one specimen 

 known to have been taken in New Brunswick. {Chamberlain^ 

 Taken at Beauport ; a summer resident in Quebec. {Dionns.) 

 " 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 female was shot 30th October, 1883, at Casselman, near 

 Ottawa, Ont., by Mr. J. S. Casselman, and another was sefen near 

 the same place shortly afterwards. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 

 It breeds. in the Laurentian Hills. {G. R. White.) Breeds in the 

 rugged hills of eastern Canada, and is frequently taken at Hamil- 

 ton and Toronto, but chiefly young birds. {Mcllwraith.) A 

 golden eagle was killed at Toronto, Ont., on October, 24th, 1896. 

 The only record in many years. I received a golden eagle shot at 

 Loring, Ont., about the first of March, 1897. On^ was killed at 

 Lake Scugog, Ont., on October 20th, 1897. I received two females 

 from Dunchurch, shot in March, 1898 and three more from Loring, 

 two females and a male. It is a remarkable fact that till 1896 I 

 had not met with a single golden eagle from Parry Sound. Bald 

 eagles always abundant but no golden eagles. {J. H. Fleming!) 

 Very rare in Manitoba. Possibly resident. {Thompson-Seton.) A 

 rare species in Assiniboia, but was seen in the " bad lands " south 

 of Wood Mountain in June, 1895, ^^d in July of the same year on 

 the West Butte and at " Writing on Stone " on the Milk River. 

 Mr. Spreadborough believed it was breeding in the above locality. 

 {Macoun.) 



This powerful _ bird breeds in the recesses of the sub-alpine 

 country which skirts the Rocky Mountains and is seldom seen 

 farther to the eastward. {Richardson.) Extends north in the 



