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Spreadborough saw it at Egg lake and Stinking lake, Peace River 
district; Ross says that it goes north to Great Slave lake, but is 
rare. It is a regular summer resident in the interior of British 
Columbia, having been found breeding in the lakes along the Cariboo 
road by Fannin in 1891. Brooks says it is a rare autumn visitor in 
the lower Fraser valley. 
BREEDING NoTes.—Breeds on Lake Manitoba; and on Buffalo 
lake, Burnt lake and many others in Alberta. On June 14th, 1896, 
took a nest with two eggs and one egg of the canvas-back. (Dippie.) 
I have never found the nests of this species except in reeds and tall 
grass growing in water on the margin of lakes and sloughs. Nests 
rather bulky, made of grass. Saw a female with four young, about 
a week old, on June 21st, 1896, in northern Labrador. This species 
was found breeding sparingly from Richmond gulf to Ungava. 
(Spreadborough.) I found this species breeding on Shoal lake, Mani- 
toba, June 8th, 1894, and at Crescent lake, Sask., June 13, 1901. 
(Ratne.) 
I have found the ruddy duck breeding at Raeburn and in other 
large marshes in Manitoba but met with it more regularly between 
Yorkton and Saskatoon, Sask. Did not observe it west of Saska- 
toon. (Geo. Atkinson.) A common breeder in the Cariboo district, 
B.C. Young when first hatched are, as might be expected, very 
large and dive for their food, unlike all other young ducks, which 
take their food from the surface for some weeks. (Brooks.) 
The ruddy duck lays a beautiful, and for the size of the duck, a 
large egg, and lays a great number, unless two or more lay in the 
same nest, which is probably the case. It was common in 1894 at 
Crane lake. The nest was usually amongst ‘‘cat-tails” (Typha 
latifolia), while the scaups and redheads preferred to breed among 
rushes (Scirpus lacustris). One nest was taken containing seventeen 
fresh eggs, fourteen of which belonged to the ruddy duck, two to 
the canvas-back and one to the redhead. Bluish-green and 
creamy white eggs in the same nest made quite a contrast. 
LXV. CHEN Bolz. 1822. 
169. Lesser Snow Goose. 
Chen hyperborea (PALL.) BOIE. 1822. 
Numerous in the spring about Fullerton, Hudson bay. Found 
breeding on Southampton island at the end of June. Nests in 
