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and throughout much of Minnesota the species is a regu- 

 lar and not uncommon summer resident. The Canada 

 goose formerly bred in Kansas; now it breeds rarely in 

 Nebraska and southern South Dakota ; regularly in North 

 Dakota and northward. This species still breeds in the 

 northern third of Colorado, in northern Utah, northern 

 Nevada, southern Oregon and northward. A half century 

 ago it was recorded as breeding as far south as southern 

 New Mexico. The Western boundary of the breeding 

 range extends from the interior of British Columbia to 

 the upper Yukon and to Fort Yukon, with a few strag- 

 glers west to the Yukon mouth. The reader will find in- 

 teresting tables showing the dates of the arrival of the 

 Canada goose at various points along the Atlantic coast 

 and in the Mississippi Valley during its spring and fall 

 migrations, in a bulletin issued by the U. S. Biological 

 Survey.* 



The Hutchins goose is similar to the Canada goose in 

 pattern, color and markings, but somewhat smaller. This 

 species is the most northern of the several forms of Can- 

 ada goose and nests from Melville Peninsula north to 

 latitude 70 and west along the shores and islands of the 

 Arctic coast to the mouth of the Mackenzie and through 

 the interior of Alaska to the Kowak River. Apparently 

 it does not breed in the interior of North America south 

 of the Barren Grounds, but on the Pacific coast it breeds 

 in the valley of the Kowak River and south to the mouth 

 of the Knik River; also abundantly in the western Aleu 

 tian and on the Near Islands.f 



*"Distribution and Migration of North Am. Ducks, Geese and Swans." 

 By Wells W. Cooke. Bulletin 26, Biological Survey, U. s'. Dept. Agr. 

 6 Ib. 



