CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 2/1 



1891. {Fannin.) Rare at Chilliwack ; most probably breeds ; 



rare in winter at Lake Okanagan, B.C. {Brooks.) One shot at 



Vernon, B. C, was mounted by Mr. Pound last year, 1891. 

 {Rhoads.) 



Breeding Notes. — I should not say that this owl was in 

 " great abundance '' in the Anderson region, as inadvertently 

 stated on page 33, Vol. III. of the Land Birds. We certainly ob- 

 served very few specimens, and we found but one nest, that 

 referred to in the same paragraph, on the 19th July, 1862, near 

 Lockhart River, on the route to Fort Good Hope. It was built 

 on a spruce tree at a height of about twenty feet, and was com- 

 posed of twigs and mosses thinly lined with feathers and down. 

 It contained two eggs and two young, both of which had lately 

 died. The female left the nest at our approach and flew to 

 another tree at some distance, where she was shot. {Macfarlatie .) 



During the winter of 1895-96 Mr. Dippie and myself received 

 over a dozen of these birds in the flesh that were shot in Alberta. 

 We also received about 50 American hawk owls in the flesh that 

 same winter. Settlers informed me that the whole of Alberta 

 swarmed with owls and they remained until April when all 

 migrated north except one pair of great grey owls which 

 remained and nested in the Red Deer River district, and Mr. 

 Dippie secured the eggs along with the parent which is probably 

 the only record of this bird ever nesting as far south, as its summer 

 home is along Great Bear Lake and northward. It breeds at the 

 mouth of the Mackenzie River, Arctic America, making a nest of 

 sticks and weeds in the highest spruce trees it can find. {W. 

 Raine.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Two fine specimens. Both were procured at Toronto, Ont., by 

 Mr. S. Herring. 



svoa. Lapp Owl. 



Scotiaptex cinerea lapponica (Retz.) Ridgw. 1887. 



A single specimen of this species was taken in the Yukon 

 Delta, on April 15th, 1876, and sent to me. It is said to be quite 

 rare. {Turner!) 



