120 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
swampy ground, built up of moss and grass. (A. P. Low.) <A few 
seen on James bay, the last week in August, 1904. (Spreadborough.) 
Messrs. Taverner and Swales record in The Auk, Vol. XXIII, p. 219, 
the taking of two Ontario specimens of this bird; the first, an immature 
male at Point Pelee, Ont., in 1905, the second, an adult male, at 
Goose creek, St. Clair flats, Ont., November 5th, 1905. 
This handsome goose is uncommon on the coast of Norton sound 
and about the Yukon mouth. It arrives in spring, between the 
5th and 15th of May, according to the season, and after remaining 
a short time passes north. (Nelson.) This species occurs only 
sparingly in the vicinity of St. Michael, and remains but a few days 
till it goes farther north. Jam not aware that it breeds south of the 
Arctic circle. (Turner.) All the snow geese taken at Point Barrow 
were of this species. They are not at all common, but are occasion- 
ally met with during the spring migrations. (Murdoch.) I saw 
five snow geese at the Aphoon mouth, Alaska, August 28th, and a 
large flock at St. Michael, September 11th. (Bishop.) A winter 
resident on the coast of British Columbia. Tolerably abundant. 
During some winters large numbers congregate off the mouth of 
Fraser river. (Fannim.) The rarest of the geese in the Fraser 
valley. (Brooks.) Have a specimen shot at Calgary, Alberta in 
the spring of 1893. (Dzppre.) 
One fine specimen was shot at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, April 
28th, 1897. (Geo. Atkinson.) 
BREEDING Notes.—These birds seek a nesting ground along the 
course of the lower Anderson river and the neighbouring region 
along the Arctic coast. (Nelson.) The Eskimos assured us that large 
numbers of ‘‘White Waveys”’ annually breed on the shores and 
islands of Esquimaux lake and Liverpool bay, but strange to say 
we never observed any on the Barren Grounds proper or on the 
shores of Franklin bay. The Eskimos brought in to Fort Anderson 
about one hundred eggs, which they claimed to have discovered 
among the marshy flats and sandy islets on the coasts of Esquimaux 
lake. (Macfarlane.) Ihave everal sets of five to seven eggs that 
were collected for me on islands in Mackenzie bay, middle of June 
1905. The goose scrapes a hole in the sand and lines it with down 
and feathers. (iavzne.) 
