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sailing about over Koche Trempe-Peau, a fitting resort for this ma- 

 jestic bird, on October 9. Another was noted 20 miles below Nahanni 

 River October 13. AThile ascending the Athabaska, Alfred E. Preble 

 and Merritt Cary saw two flying about the sandstone cliffs near Brule 

 Eapid August 19. 



AVhile descending the Mackenzie in June, 1904, I saw a fine adult 

 flying about some steep cliff's on Mount Tha-on'-tha on July 4. and 

 another near the same place tAvo days later. The}^ were probably 

 nesting in the vicinity, as ideal sites were plentiful. Later I saw one 

 near the site of old Fort Good Hope, July 18, and on my return trip 

 noted another at Spence River, 35 miles above Fort Simpson, July 

 28. AAliile ascending the Athabaska in August I collected a female 

 at Crooked Rapid, Augtist IT. It had just eaten a woodchuck 

 ( Marmota m. canadensis) . leaving only the skin and head. Perceiv- 

 ing the eagle perched on a limestone ledge, I approached stealthily 

 under cover of its overhanging edge, and not having a gun, bowled 

 her over with a stone. I observed another near Athabaska Landing 

 September 2. 



Richardson described a specimen killed by Drummond on the east- 

 ern side of the Rocky Mountains in latitude 55°.^ Ross recorded the 

 species as rare in the ^lackenzie River region north to the Arctic 

 coast, and as having been collected at Fort Simpson.^ About the 

 same time MacFarlane found about a dozen nests in the Anderson 

 River Valley, and on the banks of Horton River. Most of these were 

 on the faces of steep banks, and contained two eggs.^ The bird cata- 

 logue of the National Museum records skins received from Fort 

 Resolution; Fort Simpson; Fort Liard; Fort Anderson; Anderson 

 River ; Arctic coast ; and Cape Bathurst, the latter specimen collected 

 Ijy the Eskimo. Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway describe eggs taken 

 by R. MacDonald in the mountains west of the lower Mackenzie.^ 

 J. B. Tyrrell mentions that a large golden eagle was shot beside its 

 nest on a rocky cliff' overlooking Stone River, just east of Athabaska 

 Lake, in the summer of 1892.*^ 



In the early autumn of 1895 J. Alden Loring found the golden 

 eagle common along the trail between Edmonton, Alberta, and the 

 Jasper House region, four being seen together on one occasion in the 

 mountains. The stomach of a female shot near Jasper House con- 

 tained the remains of young varying hares. In 1896 Loring reported 

 the species quite common in the high mountains near Henry House 



Fauna Boreali-Americana, II, p. 13, 1831. 

 ^Nat. Hist. Rev. II (second ser.), p. 277, 1862. 

 cproc. U. S. Xat. Mus., XIV, p. 433, 1891. 

 ^Hist. N. A. Birds, Land Birds, III, p. 320, 1874. 

 ^Ann. Kept. Can. Geol. Surv., Till (new ser.), p. 14D, 1896. 



