CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. II9 



Spreadborough saw it at Egg lake and Stinking lake, Peace River 

 district; Ross says that it goes north to Great Slave lake, but is 

 rare. It is a regular summer- resident in the interior of British 

 Columbia, having been found breeding in the lakes along the Cariboo 

 road by Fannin in 1891. Brooks says it is a rare autumn visitor in 

 the lower Fraser valley. 



Breeding Notes. — Breeds on Lake Manitoba; and on Buffalo 

 lake. Burnt lake and many others in Alberta. On June 14th, 1896, 

 took a nest with two eggs and one egg of the canvas-back. (Dippie.) 

 I have never found the nests of this species except in reeds and tall 

 grass growing in water on the margin of lakes and sloughs. Nests 

 rather bulky, made of grass. Saw a female with four young, about 

 a week old, on June 21st, 1896, in northern Labrador. This species 

 was found breeding sparingly from Richmond gulf to Ungava. 

 (Spreadborough.) I found this species breeding on Shoal lake, Mani- 

 toba, June 8th, 1894, and at Crescent lake, Sask., June 13, 1901. 

 (Raine.) 



I have found the ruddy duck breeding at Raeburn and in other 

 large marshes in Manitoba but met with it more regularly between 

 Yorkton and Saskatoon, Sask. Did not observe it west of Saska- 

 toon. (Geo. Atkinson.) A common breeder in the Cariboo district, 

 B.C. Young when first hatched are, as might be expected, very 

 large and dive for their food, unlike all other young ducks, which 

 take their food frorn the surface for some weeks. (Brooks.) 



The ruddy duck lays a beautiful, and for the size of the duck, a 

 large egg, and lays a great number, unless two or more lay in the 

 same nest, which is probably the case. It was common in 1894 at 

 Crane lake. The nest was usually amongst "cat-tails" (Typha 

 latifolia), while the scaups and redheads preferred to breed among 

 rushes (Scirpus lacustris) . One nest was taken containing seventeen 

 fresh eggs, fourteen of which belonged to the ruddy duck, two to 

 the canvas-back and one to the redhead. Bluish-green' and 

 creamy white eggs in the same nest made quite a contrast. 



LXV. CHEN BoiE. 1822. 

 169. Lesser Snow Goose. 



Chen hyperborea (Pall.) Boie. 1822. 

 Numerous in the spring about Fullerton, Hudson bay. Found 

 breeding on Southampton island at the end of June. Nests in 



