15 
Birds 
By Gift 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police: 1 old squaw duck, 1 herring gull, 4 rock 
ptarmigan, 3 homed larks, collected by Staff-Sergt, J, E. F. Wight, Chester- 
field inlet, Keewatin district, N.W.T. 
Lands, Northwest Territories and 1 Yukon Branch, Department of the Interior, 
Ottawa: 78 bird skins collected by J. D. Soper during investigations in 
"Wood Buffalo park. Alberta; 9 bird skins collected in Mackenzie River 
delta, N.W.T., by H. E. Porsild. 
E. F. G. White, Ottawa: 3 heads of black duck ( Anas rubripes rubripes) killed 
by a native about 16 miles northeast of cape Dorset, Baffin island, in 1934, 
and presented by G. C. Russell through* Mr. White; 1 semi-downy murre 
( Uria lomvia) taken at Wolstenholme, Hudson strait, Quebec, August 27, 
1934: Eastern Arctic Patrol; 2 purple sandpipers from Grand Manan, New 
Brunswick. 
Harry S. Swarth, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate park, San 
Francisco, California: 2 Canada jays ( Perisoreus canadensis), 2 juncos 
( Junco hyemalis connectens), 2 myrtle warblers ( Dendroica coronata), 1 
western Savannah sparrow ( Passerella sandwichensis alaudinus). 
H. C. Cooke, Ottawa: 1 common loon, collected at Assinika lake, Quebec, in 
1915. 
R. W. Tufts, Wolfville, Nova Scotia: 2 Iceland gulls, 1 American golden-eye, 
7 juvenile gulls, 1 HolboelFs grebe, 1 great horned owl in the flesh. 
Edward McLsaac, Ottawa: 1 sparrow hawk in the flesh. 
A. H. McAdam, Ottawa: 2 willow ptarmigan in the flesh, from Grand Lake 
Victoria, Quebec. 
A. E. Bourguignon, Ottawa: 1 willow ptarmigan in the flesh, from Cochrane, 
Ontario. 
Hermann Koch, Ottawa: 1 homed grebe in the flesh, found dead near Pretoria 
bridge, Ottawa. 
R. D. Bird, Entomological Laboratory, Brandon, Manitoba: 1 Swainson’s 
hawk, found dead on road near Aweme, Manitoba; 1 albino bronzed 
grackle from Icelandic river. 
John Arkell, Britannia, Ontario: 1 marsh hawk in the flesh, mounted for habi- 
tat group. 
C. T. Hunt, 1 osprey in the flesh, from Black Rapids, Rideau river, near 
Ottawa. 
R. T. D. Wickenden, Geological Survey, Ottawa: 1 eastern goldfinch. 
W. W. Coleman, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: 1 spotted sandpiper, downy 
young, from Prince Albert National park, Saskatchewan, 
Dr. Ralph E. DeLury, Ottawa: 1 black and white warbler, 1 screech owl in 
the flesh. 
Ned Roberts, Britannia Heights, Ontario: 1 albino robin fledgling, hatched 
on grounds but abandoned by parents. 
F. D. and J. S. Jenkins, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: 4 adult and 
3 nestling great horned owls, in the flesh. 
Hoyes Lloyd. Rockeliffe Park. Ottawa: 1 nest of redstart in situ. 
T. E. Randall, Boyle, Alberta: 1 bobolink. 
Prof. V. C. Wynne-Edwards, Department of Zoology, McGill University: 2 
fulmars, 4 greater shearwaters, 1 Leach’s petrel, 1 ring-billed gull, taken 
in Grand Banks, Newfoundland, 1934. 
H. M. Kilbum, Casselman, Ontario: 1 grey partridge ( Perdix cinerea) in 
the flesh. 
Edith Rowell, Ottawa: 1 great homed owl in the flesh, 
A. La Rocque, Ottawa: 1 blue jay, skin. 
R. W. Tufts, WoMville, Nova Scotia: 7 juvenile gulls and 1 Holboell’s 
grebe in the flesh, 1 great homed owl in the flesh. 
Allan Moses, Grand Manan, New Brunswick: 1 Iceland gull in the flesh, 
1 shoveller skin. 
Dr. C. Bowles, Shawville, Quebec: 1 waxbill (cage bird) in the flesh. 
