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General Notes. 



TAuk 



Loct. 



anything) except that they wore ducks, this call is so characteristic and 

 unmistakable that the identification from it alone is certain.— Abetas A. 



Saunders, Mt. Vernon, X. Y. 



A Crested Canada Goose.— On February 15, 1913, three Canada 



Goose, all with a peculiar crest of feathers were shot from the same hunch of 

 geese, near Tea Island. X. C. 



Dr. II. B. Bigekvw came into possession of the partial scalp of one of 

 these curious birds and was good enough to turn it over to me. 



Prom this piece of head skin 1 have had the accompanying drawing made. 

 The crest is dirty brownish in color and the feathers arc stiff and rather 

 tightly curled. 



The occurrence of this crest in a race of wild geese is interesting, because 

 *the crested Polish fowls and the brood of crested ducks are well known. 



So far as 1 am informed there is no race o{ crested goose, though in 

 Wright's Book of Poultry, 1886, p. 562, there is mention of the fact that in 



crosses between Embdon and Toulouse geese the majority of the gander 

 and a fair proportion of the goose carry a slightly crested head. 



Davenport showed (Carnegie Institute Pub. no. 52) that the crest of the 

 Polish fowl was a dominant character, though the dominance was not 

 perfect. The crest hero is associated with a cerebral hernia. 



The fact that throe crested individuals were shot from this same flock 

 of goose means that they belonged almost certainly to the same family, 

 and that the crest was probably inherited as a dominant character. 



If such a variation had occurred in captivity it could have been made the 

 basis for a permanent race of crested Canada Geese. — John C. Phillips, 

 Wenham, Mass. 



