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Lower California (San Quintin Bay and Cerros Island). Inland in 

 Oregon (Malheur and Klamath Lakes) and in Nevada (Pyramid 

 and Washoe Lakes). On the Asiatic coast south to northern China 

 (Tsingtau) and Japan. 



Spring migration. — Main flight is northward along the coast, but 

 some fly overland across Alaska to the Mackenzie Valley. Early 

 dates of arrival in Alaska: St. Michael, May 5; Point Hope, May 

 15; Wainwright, May 24; Demarcation Point, May 20; Point Bar- 

 row, June 5. Late dates of departure: Lower California, Cerros 

 Island, May 10 ; California, San Francisco, April 24 ; Alaska, Yukon 

 delta. May 22. 



Fall migration. — A reversal of the spring routes. Migrants pass 

 through Bering Sea during the last half of September and first half 

 of October and reach California in October and November. Latest 

 date for Point Barrow is September 21, and Kolyma River, Siberia, 

 October 5. 



Casual records. — Has wandered east to New York (3 records), 

 Massachusetts (Chatham, spring of 1883 and April 15, 1902), and 

 New Jersey (Great Egg Harbor, January, 1846, and Long Beach, 

 April 5, 1877) ; and from the Pacific coast as far inland as Utah 

 (Bear River). Accidental on the Hawaiian Islands (Maui). 



Egg dates.— Krciic Canada : Fifteen records, June 8 to July 7 ; 

 nine records, June 20 to July 6. Alaska : Eleven records, June 15 to 

 July 4; six records, June 22 to 26. 



BRANTA LEUCOPSIS (Bechstein) 

 BARNACLE GOOSE 



HABITS 



This Old World species, which probably resorts regularly to 

 Greenland for the purpose of breeding, has been taken a number of 

 times at various places in eastern North America and is therefore 

 well worthy of a place on our list, as a straggling migrant, mainly 

 in the fall. 



Spring. — It is a very common bird on the west coast of Scotland, 

 whence it takes its departure about the end of April or beginning 

 of May. John Cordeaux (1898) quotes Robert Gray, concerning its 

 departure as follows : 



Previous to leaving, the barnacle geese assemble in immense flocks on the 

 open sands, at low tide, in the sounds of Benbecula and South Uist ; and as 

 soon as one detachment is on the wing it is seen to be guided by a leader, 

 wlio points the way with a strong flight nortliwards, maintaining a noisy bear- 

 ing until he gets the flock into the right course. After an hour's interval, he 

 is seen returning, with noisy gabble, alone, southwards to the main body, and 

 taking off another detachment as before, until the whole are gone. 



