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cavity in it was only eleven 

 inches across and three inches 

 deep. Five nests were found 

 on May 15, 1911, while snow 

 was still on the ground. The 

 number of eggs in the nests 

 observed at Lake Tahoe, 

 ranged from five to seven. In 

 a number of instances eggs of 

 the Canada Goose gathered 

 at Lake Tahoe have been 

 sent elsewhere and success- 

 fully hatched. Judge F. "W. 

 Henshaw has several adult 

 Canada Geese on his place 

 near Redwood City, San 

 Mateo County, which were , 

 hatched from eggs collected at 

 Lake Tahoe. Many half- 

 grown broods of Canada Geese 

 were seen by Sheldon (1907, 

 p. 187) at Eagle Lake in 

 June, 1905. Farther north 

 this goose does not lay until 

 June (Cooke, 1906, p. 76). 



H. C. Bryant (1914e, p. 

 232), during a visit to Lower 

 Klamath Lake in 1914, found 

 on June 6 a band of at least 

 ten half -grown young Canada 

 Geese accompanied by one 

 adult. Probably two broods 

 were represented. On June 7 

 two other broods were seen 

 near the mouth of "Willow 

 Creek, one containing four 

 young and the other five or 

 six. Ranchers of the vicinity 

 reported that every spring 

 Honkers nest in the tules bordering the lake, and that they are the 

 first of the water birds to nest. 



Ray (1912a, p. 68) recounts that while rowing up a slough on 

 Rowlands Marsh, Lake Tahoe, May 23, 1910, a goose "rose from her 

 nest, took a short run, and rising with heavy flight and loud cries, flew 



Fig. 35. Canada Goose. 



