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swampy ground, built up of moss and grass. {A. P. Low.) A few 

 seen on James bay, the last week in August, 1904. (Spreadborough.) 



Messrs. Taverner and Swales record in The Auk, Vol. XXIII, p. 2 19, 

 the taking of two Ontario specimens of this bird ; the first, an immature 

 male at Point Pelee, Ont., in 1905, the second, an adult male, at 

 Goose creek, St. Clair fiats, Ont., November 5th, 1905. 



This handsome goose is uncommon on the coast of Norton sound 

 and about the Yukon mouth. It arrives in spring, between the 

 5th and 15th of May, according to the season, and after remaining 

 a short time passes north. (Nelson.) This species occurs only 

 sparingly in the vicinity of St. Michael, and remains but a few days 

 till it goes farther north. I am not aware that it breeds south of the 

 Arctic circle. (Turner.) All the snow geese taken at Point Barrow 

 were of this species. They are not at all common, but are occasion- 

 ally met with during the spring migrations. (Murdoch.) I saw 

 five snow geese at the Aphoon mouth, Alaska, August 28th, and a 

 large flock at St. Michael, September nth. (Bishop.) A winter 

 resident on the coast of British Columbia. Tolerably abundant. 

 During some winters large numbers congregate off the mouth of 

 Fraser river. (Fannin.) The rarest of the geese in the Fraser 

 valley. (Brooks.) Have a specimen shot at Calgary, Alberta in 

 the spring of "1893. (Dippie.) 



One fine specimen was shot at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, April 

 28th, 1897. (Geo. Atkinson.) 



Breeding Notes. — ^These birds seek a nesting ground along the 

 course of the lower Anderson river and the neighbouring region 

 along the Arctic coast. (Nelson.) The Eskimos assured us that large 

 numbers of "White Waveys" annually breed on the shores and 

 islands of Esquimaux lake and Liverpool bay, but strange to say 

 we never observed any on the Barren Grounds proper or on the 

 shores of Franklin bay. The Eskimos brought in to Fort Anderson 

 about one hundred eggs, which they clairned to have discovered 

 among the marshy flats and sandy islets on the coasts of Esquimaux 

 lake. (Macfarlane.) I have several sets of five to seven eggs that 

 were collected for me on islands in Mackenzie bay, middle of June 

 1905. The goose scrapes a hole in the sand and lines it with down 

 and feathers. (Raine.) 



