500 CHEN HYPERBOREUS.—CYGNOPSIS CYGNOIDES. 
CHEN HYPERBOREUS (Pallas). 
LESSER SNOW-GOOSE. 
[§ 5388. One.—Arctic Coast, east of Anderson River. From 
the Smithsonian Institution, through Professor Baird, 
1870. 
One of Mr. MacFarlane’s spoils, but the label gives no precise place or time. 
He writes of this species (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 425) :—“ The 
Esquimaux assured us that large numbers of ‘White Wavies’ annually 
breed on the shores and islands of Esquimaux Lake and Liverpool Bay, but, 
strange to say, we never observed any in the Barren Grounds proper or on the 
shores of Franklin Bay. The Esquimaux brought in to Fort Anderson about 
one hundred eggs, which they claimed to have discovered among the marshy 
flats and sandy islets on the coast of the former, as well as from similar 
localities on and in the vicinity of the lakes of that (Esquimaux) name.” 
Mr. MacFarlane goes on to state that the foregoing remarks are also applicable 
to the larger form of Snow-Goose, Chen nivalis, and adds that “no doubt, 
owing to both species having until lately been considered as mere varieties, 
there has been some mixing up of their eggs, a question which future 
explorations will doubtless solve.” ] 
CYGNOPSIS CYGNOIDES (Linnzus). 
§ 5389. One. 
Entered in the Ege-book by Mr. Wolley as “ China Goose,” but without 
Lolo] ” e 
particulars. | 
[§ 5390. One.—Riddlesworth, Norfolk, 1848. From Mr. 
Thornhill. , 
If I remember right, the birds kept on the water there had free use 
of their wings. | 
(§ 5891. Gne—1 May, 1856. From the Museum of St. 
Petersburg, through Mr. Dresser, 1868. 
Said to have been obtained by Dr. Radde, and to be from a wild parent. That 
naturalist (Reisen im Siiden von Ost-Sibirien, ii. p. 353) states that it breeds 
at the southern end of the Tarei-Nor, on the Uldsa stream, and especially in 
