978 BRITISH COLUMBIA SUPPLEMENT. 



yellow. Bill greenish-gray changing to yelU^vv• on tip and along toniia; eyelids red; irides 

 brown; feet black. Immature: "Front and sides of head dusky gray; upper part of neck 

 all round, irregularly spotted with the same. Scapulars and upper and under wing-coverts, 

 with brown and black spots, most numerous along lesser coverts. Tips of primaries and 

 tail-feathers witli dusky spots" (Cones). Length of adult 16.00-19.00; wing 13.75; hill 1.40, 

 depth at nn-itril 45; tarsus 1.45. 



(ieneral Range. — Polar seas, south casually in winter to northern United States. 



Occurrence in British Columbia. — A fine adult of this species was taken at Penticton 

 by Mr. J. T. Studley on October, 1897. No cold or stormy weather had occurred to account 

 for the appearance of this .Arctic Gull so far from its habitat. Another specimen was taken 

 at Dcasc Lake. Cassiar, by James Porter. Esq., in September, iiSgg. 



B. C. & H. No. 23. 



EUROPEAN WIDGEON. 



A. O. U. No. 136. Mareca penelope (Linn.). 



Description. — Adult male: Similar to that of .1/. aincricana (</. v. p. 770) but top of 

 head buffy or creamy bufTy instead of white, — green wanting or showing only in traces: 

 throat blackish; red of head and neck nifous-brozcn. Adult female: Similar to that of 

 .If. amcricaiia Imt head and neck deeper ochraceous-buff or rusty. Size of amcricana. 



General Range. — Northern parts of the Old World and Greenland. !n North .America 

 breeds on the Aleutians and wanders south, irregularly to California, less commonly along 

 the Atlantic sea-board and in the eastern mterior. 



Occurrence in British Columbia. — "Rare. Two specimens, one taken near X'ictoria 

 February, 1899, ami another near ."^aanich" (Kermode). 



Occurrence in Washington. — There are a munber of Oregon records and the bird 

 undoubtedly occurs on Puget Sound, probably with some degree of regularity, in winter and 

 on migrations. 



B. C. & H. No. 24. 



ROSS'S SNOW GOOSE. 



A O. \]. No. 170, Chen rossii Cassin. 



Description. — Coloration exactly as in C. hyperboreus (q. v. p. 821). "Bill small, out- 

 line of feathers on side of upper mandible nearly straight instead of strongly convex, studded 

 at base with numerous papillae, and much less exposure of teeth in a blackish recess than 

 in anv of the other species." Length about 2f.oo; wing 14.50; tail 5.00; bill 1.50; tarsus 2.50. 



General Range. — Arctic .'Vinerica. in the interior; south in winter through western 

 United States 10 southern California. 



Occurrence in British Columbia. — Rather rare but several records from widely separ- 

 ated localities. 



Occurrence in Washington. — A moral certainty, since not uncommon in winter in 

 California. .Sportsmen should be on the lookout for a white Goose no bigger than a Mallard. 



B. C. & H. No. 25. 



EMPEROR GOOSE. 



A. O. U. No. 176. Philacte canagica (Sevast.). 



Description. — Adult: General plumage bluish-gray tinged with lilac, each feather 



sharply defined by a twinned crescent of black and white, producing a handsomely scaled 



appearance; head and back of neck white tinged with brownish yellow; throat and fore-neck, 



broadly, black; flight feathers and their coverts slaty; tail white; bill chiefly livid flesh-color; 



feet orange-yellow. Young birds are less conspicuously crescent-marked and have head and 



neck dusky speckled with white. Length of adult 25.00-28,00; wing 15.00-17.00; tail 5.00-6,00; 



bill 1,50; tarsus 3.00, 



General Range. — Coasts and islands of Bering Sea, chiefly about Norton Sound and 



the Yukon delta: wintering among the .'\leutians and along the coasts of southern .Alaska, 



casually south to northern California- 

 Occurrence in British Columbia. — Specimen taken at Chemainus, \', L, Nov, 25th, 



1894. The bird was shot while in company with some Canada Geese and was e.xposed for 



sale in a Victoria market, where John Fannin secured it. 



Occurrence in Washington. — No positive record but birds reported from California 



must have passed along our western coas.. 



