662 SUPPLEMENT. 
BRANTA NIGRICANS (Lawrence). 
§ 6076. Five-—Mouth of Anderson River, July, 1865. From the 
Smithsonian Institution, through Professor Baird. 
The Smithsonian number is 9468, and the label has “Female seen. Esquimaux,” 
with Mr. MacFarlane’s name. That gentleman wrote (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 
pp. 424, 425) that this Goose was exceedingly abundant on the coast of Liverpool 
Bay (into which the Anderson River runs), and that large numbers of eggs were 
obtained by the Esquimaux, six hundred and fifty having been packed up for 
shipment from Fort Anderson. 
