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with the Brent Geese ; but by far the greater number went 

 further north. 



White-headed Goose. Anser ? 



Nud-jdr-lik, Eski. 



[Probably Chloephaga canagica of Dall & Bannister's paper 

 (p. 296.)] 



This bird, of which I can find no notice, I first met with 

 at Port Clarence, and I mistook it for a young Snow -Goose. 

 An old hunter at Michalaski, in enumerating the birds to 

 me, told me of a Goose with a white head and a blue body. 

 I thought it might be the Bernicle ; but then it had a yellow 

 bill, and I was puzzled. He said that very few came, but 

 generally some every year, and that they were excellent eating. 

 On the 16th of May I came suddenly upon a flock of eight 

 of them — their white heads conspicuous. I could not get 

 within less than 200 yards without showing myself; so I took 

 out my glass to examine them at my leisure : they were 

 standing just in the water at the edge of a lake, preening 

 their feathers. They appeared to be about the size of Anser 

 albifrons, but of a stouter and heavier build ; the head and 

 about two inches of the neck perfectly white ; the back and 

 wing-coverts greyish blue, with broad bars of black and nar- 

 row ones of white ; the lower part of the neck of the same 

 colour ; belly and breast light dirty grey, darker on the flanks ; 

 quills and tail black, or nearly so ; feet and bill pale reddish 

 orange. They reminded me much of the Anser leucopsis 

 (Flem.) ; but they were larger, had more white, and no black 

 on the neck, and their bills and legs were red instead of black. 

 When I had well examined them, I endeavoured to get within 

 shot of them ; but they rose and I saw no more of them. The 

 bird is well known to the natives ; and their name for it is 

 derived from the word '' Nud-jar-huk,'^ a cap. 



Brent Goose. Anser bernicla. 

 Luk-loo-nuk, Eski. 



[Bernicla nigricans, Dall & Bann. p. 295.] 

 Vast numbers of these birds arrive in the middle of May, 

 in large flocks. The first I noticed on the 12th. They keep 



