of Ave of these small white geese 

 hanging about the Clandeboye marsh, 

 but he had thought them young 

 wavies, and had not bothered them, 

 so that we have hopes of yet secur- 

 ing a good specimen of Ross's goose, 



had previously been shot at, and had 

 a leg broken, which accounted for its 

 disinclination to fly when disturbed 

 on the river bank. In size the body of 

 the bird is about that of a* large mal- 

 lard. 



Anser Albifrons Gambelii, White Fronted Goose (Mistakenly Called the Brant.) 



which will remain a permanent re- 

 cord of the spieces for the province. 

 They are a bird which ranges in the 

 western Territories, but is nowhere 

 very common, and the presence of the 

 bird in question at that time is unex- 

 plainable, as the other geese had not 

 begun to move southward at all. It 

 was in a good healthy condition, but 



BRANTA BERNICLA. 



Brant. 



I have been pointedly contradicted 

 by those local authorities of indif- 

 ferent calibre when I stated that the 

 Brant goose was not found with any 

 regularity in Manitoba, but not- 

 withstanding statements to the con- 



