112 HUTCHINS GOOSE. 



geese near the Big Lake, a right-and-left shot. 

 On opening the female, a fine fully-developed 

 egg was discovered, the shell quite hard. I blew 

 it, and it is now in the collection of the British 

 Museum; that egg, I should imagine, would 

 have been laid the next day, and must inevitably 

 have been lost, as they breed much farther 

 north ; it is a shy, wary bird, but capital eating. 



HUTCHIN'S GOOSE. Bernida Ilutcliinsii, Bonap. 

 Very abundant east and west of the Cascades 

 and on Vancouver Island ; arrives about March, 

 going north, and returns again in September and 

 October. Very large flocks feed on the grassy and 

 swampy ground at the entrance to the Fraser 

 River, and on the Sumass and Chilukweyuk 

 prairies. It is also very plentiful in the Colville 

 valley during the spring and fall. This goose 

 has a most extended range. Specimens are 

 recorded from Red River, from Hudson's Bay, 

 from the Makenzie, from the Saskatchawan ; my 

 own from British Columbia. I also saw it in 

 Oregon. 



July 7. It is quite delightful to find oneself 

 again amidst trees. The Pitch pine (Pinus pon- 

 derosa) makes its appearance at first in scattered 

 clumps that soon become a forest, quite devoid 

 of underbush. 



