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BreEepDING Notres.—The nest of this bird} is placed in rather 
marshy ground and is a simple depression, lined with down with 
which the eggs are completely covered when the bird leavesthe 
nest. They sometimes begin to sit on four eggs and sometimes 
lay as many as six. (Murdoch.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One pair shot at Kadiak Island, Alaska. 
175. Barnacle Goose. 
Branta leucopsis (BECHST.) BANNISTER. 1870. 
A regular autumnal visitor at Julianshaab, and may perhaps 
breed in Greenland ; recorded also from the east coast. (Arez. 
Man.) 
LXVII. PHILACTE Baynister. 1870. 
176. Emperor Goose. 
Philacte canagica (SEVAST.) BANNISTER. 1870. 
Among the various species of birds, more or less peculiar to 
Alaska, this goose is perhaps the most noteworthy. The limited 
area covered by its migrations, its narrow range, reaching only 
across the area bounded by the Aleutian Islands to the south, 
and the vicinity of Behring Strait on the north, and the little 
known of its life-history caused me to give it much attention at 
St. Michael. (We/son.) The habitat of this goose is strictly littoral- 
maritime, frequenting only the reefs, rocks and shoals of the salt- 
water and brackish lagoons of the mainland coast. It is never 
found in fresh-water localities excepting those contiguous to the 
sea, such as the lower Yukon Delta, mouth of the Kuskoquim 
River, and the bars lying off the mouth of the Nuskagak River. 
(Turner.) Occurs regularly on the Pribyloff Islands in summer, 
but does not breed. (Zowzsend.) One specimen killed at Che- 
mainus, Vancouver Island, December, 1894. (/annin.) 
BREEDING Notes.—On May 22nd my Eskimo hunter brought 
inthe first one, a magnificent male in fine plumage. From that 
time on’they became more common daily until the first of June, 
when they arrived in full force. Soon after their arrival they 
began to pair, and were seen flying in couples, keeping close to 
the ground, rarely flying twenty or thirty yards high, and often 
barely keeping. clear ot \the) surface.) Early in June they 
begin depositing their eggs on the flat, marshy islands bordering 
