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Birds 
By Gijt: 529 
Kenneth Racey, Vancouver, B.C., 1 skin of Columbian sharp-tailed grouse 
(Okanagan) . 
Dr. M. Y, Williams, Vancouver, B.C., 1 skin of surf scoter. 
Department of Game and Fisheries, Toronto, 8 northern sharp-tailed grouse 
in the flesh. 
Murray W. Curtis, Lyndhurst, Ontario, 1 domestic goose in the flesh. Killed 
by flying into hydro-electric wire and sent in for identification. 
Bureau of Colonization, Game, and Fisheries, per L. A. Richard, Quebec, 13 
northern sharp-tailed grouse in the flesh, from Canton Privat, Abitibi, 
Quebec. 
Dr. A. Dery, Quebec, 2 northern sharp-tailed grouse, fresh skins, from Amos, 
Abitibi district, Quebec. 
Stuart Griddle, Aweme, Manitoba, 1 screech owl in the flesh. 
Kalmibach, E. R., Food Habits Research Laboratory, Bureau of Biological 
Survey, Denver, Colorado, 2 ligamentary skeletons of birds, white-necked 
raven ( Corvus cryptoleucus ) , and Gambel’s sparrow ( Zonotrichia leuco- 
phyrs gambeli ), to illustrate cleaning of skeleton of dermestid beetle 
larvae. 
Allan Moses, Grand Manan, New Brunswick, 1 sharp-tailed sparrow, 2 eider 
ducks, downy young. 
W. E. Whitehead, Macdonald College, Quebec, 1 pine siskin, in the flesh. 
W. Ray Salt, Rosebud, Alberta, 6 skins of great horned owl. 
Dr. R. E. DeLury, Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, 1 shrike, 1 yellow-bellied 
sapsucker, 1 redstart, 1 robin, 1 Tennessee warbler, 1 bay-breasted warbler, 
1 white-crowned sparrow — in the flesh. 
John Richard, Ottawa, 1 Wilson thrush, in the flesh. 
National Parks of Canada, Department of the Interior, Ottawa, 3 mounted 
birds (2 loons, 1 pied-billed grebe), seized at Toronto and Cornwall for 
violation of the Migratory Birds Convention Act; 24 woodcock (frozen), 
seized in Nova Scotia for violation of the Migratory Birds Convention 
Act. 
John H. Warden, Good Hope, Northwest Territories, 1 goshawk and 1 loon, 
rough skins. 
Corporal E. S. Coveil, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Moosonee, Ontario, 
1 salted skin of red-breasted goose ( Bernicla ruficollis), one of pair killed 
by Indian on Partridge creek, 18 miles from Moose Factory, east side of 
James bay, about May 30, 1933, and bearing bands “ 266 Augusta, Mich., 
Kellogg Game Sanctuary.” Also 1 goshawk and 1 snowy owl, in the flesh, 
November 6, 1933. 
Edgar Lester, Ottawa, 1 cedar waxwing, found dead. 
Constable C. B. Tidd, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Mayo Landing, Yukon 
Territory, wing and foot of buff-breasted sandpiper. 
H. F. Hughes, Curator, Grand Coteau Museum of Canadian Club, Shaunavon, 
Saskatchewan, 6 hybrid flickers ( Colaptes auratus x C. cafer), $ ad., 9 ad., 
and four fledgling young. 
F. W. Wilson, Blue Sea lake, Quebec, 1 broad-winged hawk in the flesh. 
Dr. Ross Miller, 1 wood duck skin from Nova Scotia-New Brunswick boundary. 
R. W. Tufts, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 6 gulls ( Laras kumlieni and Larus 
leucopterus ) in the flesh. 
James Austin, Ottawa, 1 Madeira petrel ( Ocearwdroma castro) in the flesh, 
found dead near Brighton Beach, Ottawa, August 28, 1933. The first 
Canadian record of this species. 
R. Romeo Sarault, Ottawa, 1 American bittern, picked up injured on Ottawa 
street. 
Dominion Lands Administration, Department of the Interior, Ottawa, 405 
bird skins from Wood Buffalo park, collected by J. Dewey Soper; 14 bird 
skins collected by A. E. Porsild in Mackenzie Delta region. 
Reid McMannus, Memramcook, New Brunswick, 1 black tern skin from New 
Brunswick. 
