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169.1. Blue Goose. 
Chen cerulescens (LINN.) GUNDL. 1865-66. 
Two females and a male of this species were shot 11th October, 
1886, within a few miles of Ottawa, Ont.,by Mr.G. R White. The 
bills and feet were black instead of being lake-red as in Dr. Coues 
description, but the birds correspond with it in every other parti- 
cular. (O¢. Nat.) A typical specimen was shot by Mr. A. Ralph 
on the River Thames, 16th November, 1888. As one foot was 
missing and the tissues completely healed over, the bird was 
probably an adult and certainly agrees in every particular with 
the description given in Ridgway’s Manual. The bird has been 
preserved and isin London, Ont. (2. A/o¢7.) A transient visitor in 
Manitoba. (Seton-Thompson.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
One specimen bought with the Holman collection in 1885. 
170. Ross’s Snowy Goose, 
Chen rossu (CASSIN) RipGw. 1880. 
According to Cassin this is the ‘‘ Horned Wavey,” described 
by Hearne, in 1795. After the description, Hearne says :— 
“This species is very scarce at Churchill River, and I believe is 
never found at any of the southern settlements, but about two or 
three hundred miles to the northwest of Churchill I have seen 
them in as large flocks as the Common Wavey or Snow Goose.” 
Nothing more was heard of this species until Mr. Robert Ken- 
nicott and Mr. Bernard R. Ross of the Hudson Bay Company 
sent specimens taken on Great Slave Lake to the Smithsonian 
Institution and Mr. Cassin recognized it as a new species and 
named it after Mr. Ross. 
This goose has been taken at the mouth of the Fraser River, 
and also on Shuswap Lake, and on Kuper Island, B.C., but I am 
inclined to think that its occurrence here is rare. (annin.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One procured at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay, by Dr. R. Bell. 
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