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the sea. They nested most abundantly on the salt-marshes adja- 
cent to their feeding-grounds and their eggs were often placed 
among fragments of drift-wood below the mark of the highest 
tides. Stray pairs were found nesting further inland in the marshy 
meadows also frequented by other species of geese, but on the 
salt-flats, near tide-water, the Emperor Goose held undisputed 
possession. The majority of the nests found contained from 
three to five eggs, the full complement ranging from five to 
eight. As the complement of eggs approached completion the 
parent made a soft bed of fine grass, leaves, and feathers plucked 
from her own breast. Asa rule, when driven from her eggs, the 
female flew straight away and alighted at some distance, some- 
times half a mile from the nest, showing very little concern. 
( Nelson.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
One, shot twenty miles south of Kadiak Island, Alaska. 
LXVIII. OLOR Wacter. 1832. 
79. Whooping Swan, 
Olor cygnus (LINN.) BONAPARTE, 1850. 
Occasional in Southern Greenland. (A. O. U. List.) 
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80. Whistling Swan. 
Olor columbianus (ORD) STEJN. 1882. 
This species is a rare and accidental visitor along the Atlantic 
coast from Newfoundland southward. It is not uncommon in 
the Gulf and River St. Lawrence and is a regular visitor on Lake 
Erie and the Great Lakes generally. Migrants in all parts of 
Manitoba and westward over the prairie, apparently not breeding 
south of the Arctic circle: 
This species breeds on the coast of the Arctic Sea within the 
Arctic circle and is seen in the interior only as a migrant. 
(Richardson.) Both Nelson and Turner speak of this bird being 
a common species in Alaska. Mr. Turner says it migrates 
about the middle of October and at this time the migration is 
always to the northward from St. Michael and directed towards 
the head of Norton Sound. From there it evidently crosses 
to the Yukon and passes up it tothe Rocky Mountains. A com- 
mon migrant in British Columbia, and according to Fannin very 
