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B I E D S O F N O R T H E R N C A N A DA 355
colour, French gray, and drab- gray. With but very few
exceptions, none of the eggs are heavily marked; about one-half
are, however, moderately well spotted."
The Ottawa Museum contains four birds and a nest taken
near Edmonton, with two eggs, i n 1897, and another with
two, built i n a poplar tree, and composed of small sticks lined
with bark and twigs, i n 188S, at Chatham, Ontario.
347a. A M E R I C A N R O U G H - L E G G E D HAWK— A r c M b u t e o lagopus
sancti- johattnis ( Gmelin).
In the spring of 1889, a male example of this hawk was
shot near Eort St. James. Stuart's Lake. Although no
nests were found i n Athabasca or Cumberland districts, yet
it is probable that a few straggler pairs breed i n the northern
sections of both. In the Anderson R i v e r region, however,
no less than seventy nests were discovered. About fifty- five
of them were built in the crotches of the tallest trees, not
far from the top, and at a height of from twenty to thirty
feet from the ground. They were composed of small sticks
and twigs, and comfortably lined with hay, moss, down and
feathers. The remaining fifteen were placed near the edge
of steep cliffs of shelving rock, or on the face of deep ravines
and other declivitous river banks, and in make they were
somewhat similar to the foregoing. The eggs varied between
four and five, never more than the latter number. The parents
invariably manifested great uneasiness, and frequently
gave utterance to vociferous screams of anger and distress,
when their nests were approached. Early i n June, 1864,
one of our Indian employees found a nest containing three
eggs on a high ledge of bituminous shale, and as the rule
was to secure the parent bird i n all possible cases for identification,
having missed k i l l i n g both, he placed a snare about
the nest; but on going to visit it later i n the day he was
disgusted at finding the snare set aside, the eggs gone, and
the birds not to be seen; but as there were no shell remains,
he presumed that they had removed the eggs to a safer posi-
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| OCR | B I E D S O F N O R T H E R N C A N A DA 355 colour, French gray, and drab- gray. With but very few exceptions, none of the eggs are heavily marked; about one-half are, however, moderately well spotted." The Ottawa Museum contains four birds and a nest taken near Edmonton, with two eggs, i n 1897, and another with two, built i n a poplar tree, and composed of small sticks lined with bark and twigs, i n 188S, at Chatham, Ontario. 347a. A M E R I C A N R O U G H - L E G G E D HAWK— A r c M b u t e o lagopus sancti- johattnis ( Gmelin). In the spring of 1889, a male example of this hawk was shot near Eort St. James. Stuart's Lake. Although no nests were found i n Athabasca or Cumberland districts, yet it is probable that a few straggler pairs breed i n the northern sections of both. In the Anderson R i v e r region, however, no less than seventy nests were discovered. About fifty- five of them were built in the crotches of the tallest trees, not far from the top, and at a height of from twenty to thirty feet from the ground. They were composed of small sticks and twigs, and comfortably lined with hay, moss, down and feathers. The remaining fifteen were placed near the edge of steep cliffs of shelving rock, or on the face of deep ravines and other declivitous river banks, and in make they were somewhat similar to the foregoing. The eggs varied between four and five, never more than the latter number. The parents invariably manifested great uneasiness, and frequently gave utterance to vociferous screams of anger and distress, when their nests were approached. Early i n June, 1864, one of our Indian employees found a nest containing three eggs on a high ledge of bituminous shale, and as the rule was to secure the parent bird i n all possible cases for identification, having missed k i l l i n g both, he placed a snare about the nest; but on going to visit it later i n the day he was disgusted at finding the snare set aside, the eggs gone, and the birds not to be seen; but as there were no shell remains, he presumed that they had removed the eggs to a safer posi- |
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