112 HUTCHIN’S GOOSE. 
geese near the’ Big Lake, a right-and-left shot. 
On opening the female, a fine fully-developed 
egg was discovered, the shell quite hard. I blew 
it, and it is now in the collection of the British 
Museum; that egg, I should imagine, would 
have been laid the next day, and must inevitably 
have been lost, as they breed much farther 
north; it is a shy, wary bird, but capital eating. 
Hurcutn’s Goosr.—Bernicla Hutchinsii, Bonap. 
—Very abundant east and west of the Cascades 
and on Vancouver Island; arrives about March, 
going north, and returns again in September and 
October. Very large flocks feed on the grassy and 
swampy ground at the entrance to the Fraser 
River, and on the Sumass and Chilukweyuk 
prairies. It is also very plentiful in the Colville 
valley during the spring and fall. This goose 
has a most extended range. Specimens are 
recorded from Red River, from Hudson’s Bay, 
from the Makenzie, from the Saskatchawan; my 
own from British Columbia. I also saw it in 
Oregon. 
July 7.—It is fonts delightful to find oneself 
again amidst trees. The Pitch pine (Pinus pon- 
derosa) makes its appearance at first in scattered 
clumps that soon become a forest, quite devoid 
of underbush. 
