26 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Branta canadensis (Linnaeus) : Canada Goose 

 Anas canadensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 123. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : Santa Rosa Island, Cali- 

 fornia; Seminole Field, Pinellas County, and Itchtucknee River, 

 Florida. Early Pleistocene: Irvington, Alameda County, California. 

 Late Pleistocene : Fossil Lake, Orgeon ; ^® Potter Creek Cave, Shasta 

 County; Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, San Pedro, Los Angeles 

 County, and near Manix, San Bernardino County, California. 

 ? Pleistocene : Rattlesnake Hill, Fallon, Nevada."^ 



Branta canadensis hutchinsii (Richardson) : Richardson's Goose 



Anscr Hutchinsii Richardson, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.- 

 Amer., vol. 2, 1831 (1832), p. 470. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Pinellas 

 County, Itchtucknee River, and Melbourne, Florida. 



Branta bernicla (Linnaeus) : Brant 

 Anas bernicla Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 124. 

 Modern form reported from Pleistocene : Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Branta esmeralda Burt 



Branta esmeralda Burt, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol. Sci., vol. 18, 

 No. 6, Mar. 19, 1929, p. 222, pi. 20. 



Upper Miocene (Esmeralda formation) : Fish Lake Valley, Es- 

 meralda County, Nevada. 



Branta howardae Miller 



Branta hoivardae L. H. Miller, Condor, vol. 32, No. 4, July 15, 1930, p. 208, 

 fig. 74- 



Lower Pliocene (Ricardo formation) : Mojave Desert area, Kern 

 County, CaUfornia. 



Branta dickeyi Miller 



Branta dickeyi L. H. Miller, Condor, vol. 26, No. 5, Sept. 15, 1924, p. 179, 

 fig. 46. 



Upper Pliocene: Dry Creek, Malheur County, Oregon. Late 

 Pleistocene: McKittrick, California. 



'^ Specimens from Fossil Lake range in size from modern B. c. 7ninima to B. c. 

 canadensis. 

 '" Recorded as Branta canadensis canadensis. 



