190 ALASKA. 



ou tbe ground, like tl)e otlier geese. The Eskimo name is 

 I\c(choicth'lul-. Tbe raw flesh and skin have an intolerable odor 

 of garlic, which renders it a very disagreeable task to skin 

 them, but when cooked this entirely passes away, and the flesh 

 is tender and good eating. 



"This goose arrives about June 1, or earlier, according to the 

 season. As soon as the eggs are hatched the birds begiu to 

 molt. I saw half-molted specimens at Pastolik, July 29, 

 18G7. It remains longer than any other goose, lingering until 

 the whole sea-coast is fringed with ice, feeding on Mytllus cdu- 

 lis and. other shell-fish, and has been seen as late as Kovember 

 1 by the Eussians. It usually goes in pairs, or four or five 

 together, rather than in large flocks. Its note is shriller and 

 clearer than that of A. gamheli or B. Inifckinsi, and it is shyer 

 than the other geese, except the black brant." 



According to Mr. Dall, the emperor-goose does not occur in 

 the Aleutiau Islands from Ounalashka eastward. 



485a. Bi'aiita canadensis, var. Iciicopareia, (Bi!i>t.) Coues. — 



White-collared goose. " CLoruie Goose." 

 Anser canadensis, Pallas, «ecai<cf. Zoog. Eosso-As.,ii, 230, (1811.) 

 Anscr lencopareius, Brandt. Bull. Ac. Acad. St. Petersb., i, 37, 



(1836.) Brandt. De.scr. et Ic. Auim. Eosso-As., 13, pi. 2, (1836.) 

 Bernida leucopareia, Cassin. 111. 272,. pi. 45, (1855.)— Bd. B. N. 



A., 764, (1858.)— Dall. Trans. Chic. Acad., i, 295, (1869.) / 

 Branta leucopareia, Gray. Hand-list, iii, 76, No. 10580, (1871.) 

 Braiita canadensis var. leucopareia, Coues. Key 284, Fig. 185 h, 



(1872.) V 



There is no reasonable question that this is anything more than 

 a race of the common B. canadensis. The supposed specific char- 

 acters, not very tangible at best, are not entirely constant. 



According to Mr. Dall, this goose is abundant on the coast 

 about the mouth of the Yukon, where it breeds, but it is rare 

 at Nulato or farther inland. The eggs were obtained at Pasto- 

 lik. 



" Occasionally straggles to the islands in small squads of ten 

 to thirty, evidently driven by high winds from their customary 

 line of migration along the mainland. Though not breeding 

 here, it spends, occasionally, weeks at a time ou the lakelets 

 and uplands, before taking flight either north or south, as the 

 season may be." 



488. Anas boscljas, {l^.)— Mallard. 



"A pair bred during the season of 1872, on Polavina Lakelet, 

 Saint Paul's Island, and several were observed later in the 



