122 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Two females and a male of this species were shot 11th October, 
1886, within a few miles of Ottawa, Ont. by Mr. G. R. White. The 
bills and feet were black instead of being lake-red as in Dr. Coues 
description, but the birds correspond with it in every other parti- 
cular. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) A typical specimen was shot 
by Mr. A. Ralph on the River Thames, 16th November, 1888. As 
one foot was missing and the tissues completely healed over, the 
bird was probably an adult and certainly agrees in every particular 
with the {description given in Ridgway’s Manual. The bird has 
been preserved and is in London, Ont. (R. Elhoit.) An adult 
male taken on the lake shore seventeen miles west of Toronto, 
Ont., is in my collection; another, probably taken at the same 
place, is in the collection at Trinity University. One specimen was 
taken at Gravenhurst, Ont., about 1886. (J. H. Fleming.) A tran- 
sient visitor in Manitoba. (E. T. Seton.) 
170. Ross Snowy Goose. 
Chen rossia (CASSIN) RIDGW. 1880. 
According to Cassin this is the ‘“‘Horned Wavey,” described by 
Hearne, in 1795. After the description, Hearne says -— 
‘‘This species is very scarce at Churchill river, and I believe is 
never found at any of the southern settlements, but about two or 
three hundred miles to the northwest of Churchill I have seen them 
in as large flocks as the common wavey or snow goose.”’ 
Nothing more was heard of this species until Mr. Robert Kenni- 
cott and Mr. Bernard R. Ross, of the Hudson Bay Company, sent 
specimens taken on Great Slave lake to the Smithsonian Institution, 
and Mr. Cassin recognized it as a new species and named it after 
Mr. Ross. 
On September 20th, 1902, a specimen of this bird was taken 
near Portage la Prairie, Man. bya young lad, F. Marwood, and 
later the mutilated skin fell into my hands. I subsequently heard 
that in 1901 two other specimens had been taken. (Geo. Atkinson.) 
A regular migrant throughout the Calgary district, Alta. Every 
fall a limited number are killed by local sportsmen here, who call 
them the ‘‘little wavey.”” (Dzppie.) 
This goose has been taken at the mouth of the Fraser river, and 
also on Shuswap lake, and on Kuper island, B.C., but I am inclined 
to think that its occurrence here is rare. (/*annin.) 
