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Chen hyperboreus hyperboreus. Snow Goose. 



Occasional. Aiken has a mounted specimen killed at the 

 Pebbles Ranch on Squirrel Creek, 25 miles east of Colorado 

 Springs, October 27, 1885. 



Chen hjrperboreus nivalis. Greater Snow Goose. 



October 16, 1913, a flock of 9 or 10 geese came to the 

 reservoir on the Stevenson ranch, 12 miles south of Colorado 

 Springs, and two of them were shot by C. F. Anderson and 

 Alex.' Meredith of Colorado Springs. A third which was 

 crippled on the 16th was secured by R. A. Barton on the 

 19th. This last bird is mounted and has been examined by 

 Warren, as also the mounted head of one of the other two. 

 The mounted bird and one of the others were measured when 

 killed, their lengths being 28 and 30 inches respectively. The 

 lengths of the bills of the two specimens seen, with the length 

 of the wing of the mounted bird, together with the total 

 lengths above given, indicate that the birds were Greater 

 Snow Geese, and they constitute a third record of the species 

 for Colorado, the other two being a bird taken by President 

 Z. X. Snyder east of Greeley, March 20, 1895, and one killed 

 by John F. Campion near Loveland, April 9, 1899. All three 

 of the birds lately taken seem to be immature, having con- 

 siderable yellowish on the feathers of the head and anterior 

 portions of the body. 



Branta canadensis canadensis. Canada Goose. 



Reported by hunters who distinguish this form from the 

 following. 



Branta canadensis hutchinsi. Hutchins's Goose. 



Occasionally killed by hunters who report it as more 

 common than the Canada Goose. Aiken killed one from a 

 flock at Chico Basin, December 3, 1871. 



Olor columbianus. Whistling Swan. 



Occasional migrant. An immature bird was killed on 



