190 ALASKxV. 



on tbe ground, like tlie other geese. The Eskimo name is 

 JS^achoicthlulx. Tbe raw flesh and skin have an intolerable odor 

 of garlic, which renders it a very disagreeable task to skin 

 them, but when cooked this entirely passes away, and the flesh 

 is tender and good eating. 



*'This goose arrives about June 1, or earlier, according to the 

 season. As soon as the eggs are hatched the birds begin to 

 inolt. I saw half-molted specimens at Pastolik, July 29, 

 1867. It remains longer than any other goose, lingering until 

 the whole sea-coast is fringed with ice, feeding on 3Iytiliis edu- 

 Us and other shell-fish, and has been seen as late as ^^ovember 

 1 by the Eussians. It usually goes in pairs, or four or five 

 together, rather than in large flocks. Its note is shriller and 

 clearer than that of A, (jamheU or B. hutchinsi, and it is shyer 

 than the other geese, except the black brant." ' 



According to Mr. Dall, the emperor-goose does not occur in 

 the Aleutian Islands from Ounalashka eastward. 



485a. Bi aiita cawadeiisis, var. leiicopareia, (Brdt.) Coues — 



White-coUared goose. " Choruie Goose." 

 Anser canadensis, Pallas, »jec a«c/. Zoog. Eosso-As.,ii, 230, (1811.) 

 Anser Icucopareius, Brandt. Bull. Ac. Acad. St. Petersb., i, 37, 



(I83G.) Brandt. Descr. et Ic. Auim. Rosso-As., 13, pi. 2, (1836.) 

 Bernicla lencoparela, Cassix. 111. 272^ pi. 45, (1855.)— Bd. B. K. 



A., 764, (1858.)— Dall. Traus. Cliic. Acau., i, 295, (1869.) / 

 Branta leucojjareia, Gray. Hand-list, iii, 76, No. 10580, (1871.) 

 . Branta canadensis var. Jeucojpareia, Coues. Key 284, Fig. 185 b, 



(1872.) T 



There is no reasonable question that this is anything more than 

 a race of the common B. canadensis. The supposed specific char- 

 acters, not very tangible at best, are not entirely constant. • 



According to Mr. Dall, this goose is abundant on the coast 

 about the mouth of the Yukon, where it breeds, but it is rare 

 at Nulato or farther inland. The eggs were obtained at Pasto- 

 lik. 



^' Occasionally straggles to the islands in small squads of ten 

 to thirty, evidently driven by high winds from their customary 

 line of migration along the mainland. Though not breeding 

 here, it spends, occasionally, weeks at a time on the lakelets 

 and uplands, before taking flight either, north or south, as the 

 season may be." 



488. Anas bOSChas, {L.)—Mal}ard. 



''A pair bred during the season of 1872, on Polavina Lakelet, 

 Saint PauFs Island, and several were observed later in the 



