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of Eskimo Lake. The Ottawa Museum has only one fine 

 skin specimen, shot at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, April 

 28th, 1897, and not a single egg! 



169a. Greatee Sh-qw Goose — Chen hyperhorea nivalis 



Eidgway. 

 During our (1861-1866) residence at Port Anderson we 

 secured over one hundred eggs of both species, which had 

 not at that time been definitely separated. They were all 

 obtained from the Eskimos, who assured us that they had 

 found them in nests placed among the marshy flats and on 

 reedy sand islets on the sea-coast as well as on the low banks 

 of the so-called Eskimo Lake, west of the lower Anderson 

 Eiver. Neither kind was ever observed by us on the Ander- 

 son Barren Grounds, although that accurate and distin- 

 guished scientist. Sir John Eichardson, as quoted by Prof. 

 John Macoun, recorded them as " breeding in immense 

 numbers in the Barren Grounds along the Arctic coast." 

 At Port Chipewyan, where I resided from 1871 to 1885, 

 both waveys were for a time annually very abundant, espe- 

 cially in the autumn, when great numbers were, as in the 

 spring, shot for immediate food consumption, and many 

 were also prepared for later use in course of the long winter, 

 when they proved an agreeable change from the usual bill of 

 fare. Mr. Eoss says this is the first of the three white 

 waveys to arrive at Port Eesolution. 



There is but one specimen, shot at Black Island, Lake 



Winnipeg, by Mr. J. B. Tyrrell ; also a set of three eggs, taken 

 on one of the Twin Islands, James Bay, Hudson Bay, in 

 1898, received from Mr. A. P. Low, in the Ottawa Museum! 

 This is surely the most southerly breeding point of a white 



-wavey on record. 



170. Eoss's Snow Goose — Chen rossii (Cassin). 



An example skin of this small and interesting wavey 

 was shot near Port St. James, Stuart's Lake, summer 1889, 

 2t 



