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 Nov., 1909 A COLLECTION O1' BIRDS FROM FORTY-MILE, CANADA 2O5 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 rectrices); immature female (no. 4952), May 7, 1898; immature female (no. 4953), October 10, 1900; immature fe- male (no. 4965), August 18, 1901. Aquila chrysatos (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 iramatures (nos. 496l, 4962), September 15, 1899: streaking below, heavy; colors, dark. Falco columbarius Linnaeus. Pigeon Hawk. Immature male lno. 4960), Aug- ust .10, ' 1898. Asio fiammeus (Poutoppidan). Short-eared Owl. Adult female (no. 4938), May 2, 1898; adult male (no. 4939), May 16, 1898; pair of iramatures (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. Cryptoglauxfunerea 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- rnale (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 lagoponus. (See Proceed- ings U.S. Nat. Museum XXVII, January 1904, pp. 177-192.) But the dark one meets his description of 8. z,. satu'attts, even as an extreme of that form. But Forty-mile is far out of the range of salu'altzs; 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 lagoli}onus. 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 (Miiller). 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.