Il8 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



Our representative of this species was shot at the Red Deer 

 River, Alberta, September I2th, 1896,. by Mr. Dippie. 



1715. Bean Goose. 



Anser faialis (Lath.) Salvad. 1895. 

 Accidental in Greenland. (y\/inge^ 



LXVI. BRANTA Scopoli. 1769. 

 172. Canada Goose. 



Branta canadensis (Linn.) Bannister. 1870. 



A common migrant in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It 

 breeds in Newfoundland, in Labrador, in northern Quebec, and 

 on the island of Anticosti, where the writer saw flocks of old 

 and young feeding in bogs on the berries of Empetum nigrum in 

 August, 1883. 



This species is a migrant as far as known in Ontario, but west- 

 ward it breeds from Manitoba and the prairie region to the 

 Pacific coast. A few pairs breed in almost all the prairie lakes 

 having islands in them and where the water on the outer fringe of 

 a marsh is over 30 inches deep. It was found breeding, by 

 Spreadborough, at Henry House, Athabasca Pass, 1898. Found 

 breeding in the marshes along the Bow River at Banff in 1891, 

 in the marshes of the Columbia below Golden in 1885 and near 

 Revelstoke, B.C., in 1890. Farther to the north it becomes more 

 abundant and breeds in greater numbers throughout the whole 

 wooded country. It is not common in Alaska but breeds in the 

 interior and throughout British Columbia. Brooks reports that 

 a flock of Canada Geese winters every year on Shuswap Lake, B.C. 



This species breeds throughout the entire wooded region of 

 the Mackenzie River basin. Nests were discovered in the vicinity 

 of Fort Anderson and to the borders of the forest on the east and 

 west sides of the river of that name. None were met with on the 

 "Barrens" nor on the Arctic coast. Severals deserted hawk's 

 nests were found occupied by incubating females. (JVLacfarlane.) 



