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Ji69.i. Blue Goose. 



Chen ccerukscens (Linn.) Gundl. 1865-66. 



Two females and a male of this species were shot i ith October, 

 1886, within a few miles of Ottawa, Ont.,by Mr. G. R White. The 

 bills and feet were black instead of being lake-red as in Dr. Coues 

 description, but the birds correspond with it in every other parti- 

 cular. (JDtt. Nat.) A typical specimen was shot by Mr. A. Ralph 

 on the River Thames, i6th November, 1888. As one foot was 

 missing and the tissues completely healed over, the bird was 

 probabjy an adult and certainly agrees in every particular with 

 the description given in Ridgway's Manual. The bird has been 

 preserved and is in London, Ont. {R.Elliott.') A transient visitor in 

 Manitoba. {Seton-Thompson.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One specimen bought with the Holman collection in 1885. 



i'70. Boss's Snowy Goose, 



Ckenrossii (Cassin) Ridgw. 1880. 



According to Cassin this is the " Horned Wavey," described 

 by Hearne, in 1795. After the description, Hearne says : — 



" This species is very scarce at Churchill River, and I believe is 

 never found at any of the southern settlements, but about two or 

 three hundred miles to the northwest of Churchill I have seen 

 them in as large flocks as the Common Wavey or Snow Goose." 



Nothing more was heard of this species until Mr. Robert Ken- 

 nicott and Mr. Bernard R. Ross of the Hudson Bay Company 

 sent specimens taken on Great Slave Lake to the Smithsonian 

 Institution and Mr. Cassin recognized it as a new species and 

 named it after Mr. Ross. 



This goose has been taken at the mouth of the Fraser River, 

 and also on Shuswap Lake, and on Kuper Island, B.C., but I am 

 inclined to think that its occurrence here is rare. {Famiin.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



One procured at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay, by Dr. R. Bell. 

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