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Oidemia deglandi Bonaparte. White-winged Scoter. 
Flocks seen at intervals throughout the summer in many of 
the bays and channels. Abundant at Hawkins Island; less so 
at Hinchinbrook, Naked, and Storey islands, at the mouth of 
Port Nell Juan and near Ellamar. At Valdez Narrows, Sep- 
tember 19, Heller secured a full plumaged adult male (no. 1113). 
Its stomach contained fragments of clam shells. 
Branta canadensis occidentalis (Baird). White-cheeked Goose. 
Only this one species of goose was seen in the Prince William 
Sound region. At the head of Cordova Bay there were a few 
individuals, as also at Graveyard Point, Montague Island; and 
at Chenega Island. Flocks of from five to eight were noted at 
Hinchinbrook Island. On Hawkins Island there were many 
pairs, and some flocks of three to six each. Two geese shot by 
Heller were easily approached without stalking. Dixon found 
a nest with six eggs June 18 on this island, near Canoe Passage. 
It was located at the head of a tide slough at the edge of the 
woods. The nest was made up of moss and down and was placed 
in the open near the base of a hemlock. The eggs would have 
hatched in two or three days. 
On June 22, Dixon records as follows: ‘‘In crossing some 
marshy flats we came upon six geese, five of which flew noisily 
away; but the sixth came gabbling toward us. We soon saw 
that her unusual tameness was due to her anxiety in regard to 
six or eight newly hatched goslings that scrambled from under 
our feet and disappeared with a splash into a nearby pond. 
I walked up to within twenty-five feet of the mother as she 
came with her head down in the usual manner of an irate goose. 
She followed us for some distance when we left.’’ 
On June 21, also on Hawkins Island, Miss Kelloge flushed 
an old goose from a nest in the tall grass near the beach. There 
were five newly hatched young. One of these, taken as a speci- 
men (no. 1131), is identical in coloration with a downy young 
one from the Sitkan district. 
