B58 



NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[NO. 27. 



Richardson mentions a specimen killed b}^ Drummond on ' Smoking- 

 River.' « Ross listed A. lag opus as common throughout the Macken- 

 zie River region north to La Pierre House, and as having been taken 

 at Fort Simpson ; ^ and the bird catalogue of the National Museum 

 shows that skins were received from these localities and from Fort 

 Resolution. Kennicott noted the species at Fort Resolution on May 

 7, 1860.^ MacFarlane found the bird abundant in the Anderson River 

 region, both in the forested comitry and on the Arctic coast, and saw 

 upward of 70 nests during the several seasons. The majority w^ere 

 built on trees, but 15 were on cliffs or banks.'^ Bendire records eggs 

 taken by MacFarlane on Anderson River on May 23 and June 16, 

 1863.^ Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway describe an adult male in the 

 normal plumage taken at Fort Resolution by Lockhart.'^ Russell 

 records a specimen taken at Herschel Island August 4, 1894.^ Ma- 

 coun, on the authority of Raine, records eggs taken by Stringer at 

 Mackenzie Bay ; he also mentions a nest with 3 eggs found by Bishop 

 Lofthouse on Artillery Lake, June 4, 1900.'^ In the summer of 1896 

 J. Alden Loring reported seeing several in the foothills of the Rocky 

 Mountains in w^estern Alberta, and took a male on the Smoky River 

 trail between Muskeg Creek and Baptiste River, September 30. 



Aquila chrysaetos (Linn.). Golden Eagle. 



This cosmopolitan species is found throughout the wooded region, 

 but occurs more commonly in the vicinity of mountains, probably 

 on account of the advantages they afford for nesting. It is migratory 

 to some extent, though many individuals brave the winter in high 

 latitudes. 



In 1901 one was seen a short distance below Athabaska Landing 

 May 6. The species were not again noted until we were crossing 

 Great Slave Lake July 10, when I observed one about an island 50 

 miles north of Fort Resolution. 



In 1903 I noted the first individual of this species near Gros Cape, 

 Great Slave Lake, July 24. Several were seen in the range of moun- 

 tains south of MacTavish Bay, Great Bear Lake, August 26. Eyries 

 were common on the cliffs here, but as the bald and golden eagles 

 were equally common, particular nests could not be attributed to 

 either species with certainty. The species was next noted on the Mac- 

 kenzie near Gravel River October 6, and a fine individual was seen 



« Fauna Boreali-Americana, II, p. 52, 1831. 



»Nat. Hist. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 276, 1862. 



c Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., I, p. 170, 1869. 



^ Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, pp. 432, 433, 1891. 



^Life Hist. N. A. Birds [I], p. 259, 1892. 



^Hist. N. A. Birds, Land Birds, III, p. 304, 1874. 



^'Expl. in Far Nortli, p. 262, 1898. 



^Cat. Canadian Birds, Part II, p. 241, 1903. 



