1909] The 1907 Alexander Alaska Expedition. 199 
Dixon found a nest near Hasselborg River, Admiralty Island, 
June 12, which was under a hemlock in a meadow at least a 
quarter of a mile from water. It was merely a shallow depres- 
sion lined with goose down. There had been seven eggs in the 
nest. A lone gosling (No. 14, in natal down) was found in a 
beaver pond one-fourth of a mile distant from the nest. 
At Port Frederick, Chichagof Island, July 27, a flock of about 
fifty white-cheeked geese were seen on a tide flat. These were 
evidently in molt and unable to fly, as they merely flopped off 
down to the water. The species was also seen at Hooniah and 
Red Bluff Bay. At Glacier Bay Stephens noted a brood of half- 
erown young in July. At Windfall Harbor early in the season 
several were shot and two preserved. Three males weighed 11, 
1114, and 1214 pounds, and were not fat. A female was very 
fat and weighed 914 pounds. 
The two adult males, taken April 22 and 23, measure as 
follows: 
No. Wing Tail Tarsus Culmen Bill from nostril 
18 473 200 92 50 26 
19 490 230 93 51 27 
These two specimens are chiefly characterized on comparison 
with B. c. canadensis by very dark colors, especially on the lower 
surface. The flanks and tibiae darken to deep broccoli brown, 
while a slightly less intense shade of the same color invades the 
rest of the underparts between the black neck and the white 
belly and erissal region. The back too is darker than in cana- 
densis, like the color of the flanks with hehter tippings. There 
is no white half-collar bounding the black neck below in front. 
The large cheek patches are continuous below across the throat, 
though somewhat constricted by the opposite medial encroach- 
ments of black from the chin and neck. 
Ardea herodias fannini Chapman. Northwest Coast Heron. 
Great blue herons were not common anywhere, though met 
with at widely different places. At Windfall Harbor, Admiralty 
Island, a pair were seen repeatedly the last of April; and at 
Mitchell Bay, near Killisnoo, June 13, four were seen on a small 
island and one secured. Stephens saw two twice at Bear Bay, 
