118 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
Our representative of this species was shot at the Red Deer 
River, Alberta, September 12th, 1896, by Mr. Dippie. 
1710. Bean Goose. 
Anser fabalis (LATH.) SALVAD. 1895. 
Accidental in Greenland. (Winge.) 
LXVI. BRANTA Scopoti. 1769. 
172, Canada Goose. 
Branta canadensis (LINN.) BANNISTER. 1870. 
A common migrant in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It 
breeds in Newfoundland, in Labrador, in northern Quebec, and 
on the island of Anticosti, where the writer saw flocks of old 
and young feeding in bogs on the berries of Ampetum mgrum in 
August, 1883. 
This species is a migrant as far as known in Ontario, but west- 
ward it breeds from Manitoba and the prairie region to the 
Pacific coast. A few pairs breed in almost all the prairie lakes 
having islands in them and where the water on the outer fringe of 
a marsh is over 30 inches deep. It was found breeding, by 
Spreadborough, at Henry House, Athabasca Pass, 1898. Found 
breeding in the marshes along the Bow River at Banff in 1891, 
in the marshes of the Columbia below Golden in 1885 and near 
Revelstoke, B.C., in 1890. Farther to the north it becomes more - 
abundant and breeds in greater numbers throughout the whole 
wooded country. It is not common in Alaska but breeds in the 
interior and throughout British Columbia. Brooks reports that 
a flock of Canada Geese winters every year on Shuswap Lake, B.C. 
This species breeds throughout the entire wooded region of 
the Mackenzie River basin. Nests were discovered in the vicinity 
of Fort Anderson and to the borders of the forest on the east and 
west sides of the river of that name. None were met with on the 
‘‘ Barrens” nor on the Arctic coast. Severals deserted hawk’s 
nests were found occupied by incubating females. (J/acfarlane.) 
