1908.] 



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Mackenzie near Roche Trempe-reau, where a large flock was seen 

 flying southward on October 9, An immature bird, taken at Willow 

 Eiver, near Fort Providence, about the last of September, 1903, and 

 obtained at Fort Simpson in a frozen state, was preserved. 



In the spring of 1904 I first saw this species at Fort Simpson on 

 May 11. noting five individuals. Several flocks were seen passing 

 on the following day. AAliile ascending the Mackenzie on my return 

 trip I saw a sm?lll flock a short distance above Fort Wrigley, July 

 23. They were molting their wing quills and took to the woods on 

 the approach of the steamer. In all probability they had nested 

 in the vicinity. 



The white-fronted goose was apparently first recorded from the 

 region by Richardson, who refers to a specimen taken at Fort Enter- 

 prise May IT [1821]. « Thomas Simpson, during his journey along 

 the Arctic coast, observed numbers breeding on the borders of the 

 swamps and ponds near the mouth of Coppermine River.^ Doctor 

 Rae shot the species on Point Lockyer, Coronation Gulf, May 31, 

 1851.^ Ross listed it as occurring commonly in the Mackenzie River 

 region north to the Arctic coast and as having been taken at Fort 

 Simpson.^ Kennicott noted its arrival at Fort Resolution on May 

 7, 1860.^ In notes sent to Professor Baird, MacFarlane noted its 

 arrival at Fort Anderson on May 16. 1861, and May 17, 1865. Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway state that MacFarlane found it breeding 

 abundantly on the Lower Anderson, and on the coast and islands of 

 the Arctic Sea [Franklin Bay] : ^ and MacFarlane records the same 

 facts, with many additional particulars regarding the nesting. On 

 July 5, 1861, while his party was returning across the ' Barrens ' 

 from Franklin Bay to Fort Anderson, 30 molting ganders, most of 

 which were captured, were observed on a small lake.^' Salvadori 

 lists a specimen taken on the Arctic coast east of Fort Anderson;'' 

 and the bird catalogue of the National Museum shows that skins were 

 received from Fort Simpson; Franklin Bay; Fort Anderson; Liver- 

 pool Bay ; and Fort Resolution ; one from the latter locality, col- 

 lected by Kennicott, May 24, 1860, is still in the collection. War- 

 burton Pike observed the ' grey wavey ' breeding in the marshes 

 along Back River above Lake Beechey on July 18, 1890 ; and 



^' Fauna Boreal i-Americana, II, p. 466, 1831. 



^ Narrative Discoveries on North Coast of America, p. 262, 1843. 



c Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc, XXII, p. 80, 1852. 



<^Nat. Hist. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 286, 1862. 



^ Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., I, p. 170, 1869. 



f Water Birds N. A., I, p. 450, 1884. 



0 Proc. r. S. Nat. Mns., XIV, p. 423, 1891. 



^ Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXVII, p. 97, 1895. 



^ Barren Ground of Northern Canada, p. 183, 1892. 



