1917] Swarth-Bryant: White-fronted Goose in California 219 
geese being everywhere by the hundreds—were much more confiding and answered 
much more readily to Sam’s call, coming in directly and without the usual wary 
circling. Several times, for example, it happened that in a mixed flock the 
white-fronted geese would turn and leave, while the tule geese would come sailing 
on to what would haye been their destruction. 
I mentioned to you over the phone the conspicuous bright orange membrane 
fully surrounding the eye of the tule goose. It did not appear upon any specimen 
of the white-fronted goose, and Sam declared that he had never seen it on a 
white-fronted goose. Sam, I should add, was born in Sutter county, has been for 
years a market hunter, and is exceptionally endowed with powers of observation 
and wild fowl mimicry. 
Transmitted May 1, 1917. 
