Nov., 1909 
A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM FORTY-MILE, CANADA 
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Accipiter velox (Wilson). Sharp-shinned Hawk. Full-grown juvenal male 
(no. 4959), August 19, 1901. 
Astur atricapillus (Wilson). Goshawk. Adult female (no. 4964), August 18, 
1901; two full-grown juvenal males (nos. 4955, 4956), July 31, 1894 (wisps of natal 
down still adhere to the tips of the secondaries and rectriees); immature female (no. 
4952), May 7, 1898; immature female (no. 4953), October 10, 1900; immature fe- 
male (no. 4965), August 18, 1901. 
Aquila chrysaetos (Linnaeus). Golden Eagle. Two adult females (nos. 4503, 
4504), April 5, 1901, each “caught in marten trap”. These are larger than Cali- 
fornia birds. They measure respectively: wing, 648 and 660; tail, 390 and 395; 
tarsus, 104 and 110; outside chord of hind claw, 55 and 54.5; chord of culmen 
from cere, 43.3 and 43.8. 
Falco peregrinus anatum Bonaparte. Duck Hawk. Pair of immatures (nos. 
4961, 4962), September 15, 1899: streaking below, heavy: colors, dark. 
Falco columbarius Linnaeus. Pigeon Hawk. Immature male (no. 4960), Aug- 
ust 10, 1898. 
Asio flammeus ( Pontoppidan) . Short-eared Owl. Adult female (no. 4938), 
May 2, 1898; adult male (no. 4939), May 16, 1898; pair of immatures (nos. 4936, 
4937), October 10, 1899. The light markings in all these specimens are slightly 
whiter than in most examples from California. 
Scotiaptex nebulosa (Forster). Great Gray Owl. Adult male (no. 4972), 
Februrary 15, 1898; immature male (no. 4973), September 10, 1900; adult female 
(no. 4974), December 10, 1900. 
Cryptoglaux funerea richardsoni (Bonaparte). Richardson Owl. Six adults 
(nos. 4929-4934), of following dates, respectively: October 28 and 25, and Decem- 
ber 10, 1899; October 20, November 20, and December 18, 1900. 
Bubo virginianus lagophonus ( Oberholser ) . Ruddy Horned Owl. Adult fe- 
male (no. 4970), June 10, 1899; adult female (no. 4971), October 15, 1900. These 
two birds are very different in coloration: the first is of a light type, the second 
very dark; the first has the face chiefly whitish, the second has the face heavily 
markt with black and deep buff; the first has the feet nearly immaculate, the 
second has the feet heavily but finely barred with black and buff. The lighter 
example is apparently indentifiable with Oberholser ’s lagophonus. (See Proceed- 
ings U. S. Nat. Museum XXVII, January 1904, pp. 177-192.) But the dark one 
meets his description of B. v. saturatus, even as an extreme of that form. But 
Forty-mile is far out of the range of saturatus-, and Horned Owls are presumed to 
be permanently resident wherever they occur. At any rate Forty-mile is in the 
wrong direction to account for the occurrence of the present specimen as a migrant. 
I would rather consider it an individual variant or “phase” of the resident race of 
the Yukon Valley, which normally presents the characters of lagophonus. In the 
above-cited paper Mr. Oberholser leaves the reader in a hazy state of mind as to 
how and when to distinguish “phase” characters from true subspecific characters. 
Surnia ulula caparoch (Muller). Hawk Owl. Seven adults ( nos. 4941-4947), 
with following dates: May 27, October 15 (two specimens) and November 8, 1899; 
October 15 and November 10, 1900; April 25, 1901. 
Dryobates villosus leucomelas (Boddaert). Northern Hairy Woodpecker. A- 
dult male (no. 4550), November 5, 1900: wing, 134.7; tail, 100; tarsus, 26.5; culmen, 
36.5; bill from nostril, 32; depth of bill, 8.8. — Large; brilliant white and black; 
scarlet nuchal patch broadly divided by black, the latter, therefore, continuous from 
crown over hind -neck. 
Picoides americanus americanus (Swainson). Alaska Three-toed Woodpecker. 
