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and their eggs were often placed among fragments of drift-wood 
below the mark of the highest tides. Stray pairs were found nesting 
further inland in the marshy meadows also frequented by other 
species of geese, but on the salt-flats, near tide-water, the emperor 
goose held undisputed possession. The majority of the nests found 
contained from three to five eggs, the full complement ranging from 
five to eight. As the complement of eggs approached completion 
the parent made a soft bed of fine grass, leaves, and feathers plucked 
from her own breast. As a rule, when driven from her eggs, the 
female flew straight away and alighted at some distance, sometimes 
half a mile from the nest, showing very little concern. (Nelson.) 
LXIX. DENDROCYGNA Swainson. 1837. - 
178. Fulvous Tree-duck. 
Dendrocygna fulva (GMEL.) BURMEISTER, 1856. 
In the Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, Vol. VI, 1861, p. 334, 
there is what must stand as a good record of the fulvous tree-duck 
in British Columbia. In an article entitled ‘“‘Recollections of the 
Swans and Geese of Hudson bay’? Mr. George Barnston says: 
“Two small species of southwest habitat, the Dendrocygna autum- 
nalis and D. fulva never come north, as far as I know. I have 
never seen the first, but have shot one out of a pair of the latter on 
the banks of the Columbia above Okanagan. This I daresay is 
usually its limit to the north, and I believe it has never been seen 
to the eastward of the great stony ridge. Neither of these elegant 
little geese ever visit Hudson bay.” (/. H. Fleming.) 
In September, 1905, Mr. J. S. Rollins saw eleven fulvous tree- 
ducks on the flats near New Alberni, Vancouver island and shot five 
of them. One specimen isin the provincial museum at Victoria 
(Spreadborough.) 
LXX. OLOR Wacter. 1832. 
179. Whooping Swan. 
Olor cygnus (LINN.) BONAPARTE. 1856. 
Occasional in southern Greenland. (A.O.U. List.) 
