inOS.] BIEDS. 307 



Coj^permine Eirer. September 5, ISIS." Baird, Brewer, and Kidg- 

 way record specimens from Fort Resolntion, Big Island, Fort Simp- 

 son. Anderson Eiver. and Franklin Bay.^ MacFarlane describes the 

 nesting of this bird on the lower Anderson, and on the shores and 

 islands of the Arctic Sea [Franklin Bay].^ A skin taken by him on 

 Franklin Bay, Jime 5, 186^1:, and labeled as haying been taken with^ 

 three eggs, is still in the Xational Museum. King, probably referring 

 to this form, records geese from Lake Pelly, Back Riyer, where they 

 commenced to migrate southward on September -i.^ J. AV. Tyrrell 

 noted many broods of a small gray goose, imdoubtedly this form, on 

 the upper Thelon Eiyer in Jidy. 1900.^ Geese, undoubtedly referable 

 to this form, were seen by Hubert Darrell on Melyille Sound July 9, 

 1902. Gates records two eggs taken by CoUinson at Cambridge Bay, 

 Victoria Land/ 



Branta bernicla glancogastra (Brehm). Wliite-bellied Brant. 



The eastern brant, as nearly as can be determined by migration 

 and breeding records, inhabits the islands bordering the Gulf of 

 Boothia, Prince Eegent Inlet, and Wellington Channel, within this 

 area apparently not breeding south of latitude 74°, and being the 

 only goose which penetrates north to that point. There seems to be 

 no definite record of brant west of Cornwallis Island until Melyille 

 Island is reached, the birds of which seem properly referable to the 

 western form. 



J. C. Eoss states that the brent goose was abundant at Felix 

 * Harbor in migration, but did not breed, and that it was common, 

 probably breeding, at Fury Point.^/ Sutherland recorded it as com- 

 mon and probably breeding at Assistance Bay, July 7, 1851.'' 

 M'Dotigall reported it from Beechey Island, June 17, 1854;^ and 

 there are many other records for Wellington Channel. Belcher 

 found brent geese common June 19, 1853, near the extreme northern 

 part of North Devon, near latitude 77°. longitude 95°.-' 



Branta nigricans (Lawr.). Black Brant. 



The black brant inhabits the Arctic coast east at least to Franklin 

 Bay, and northeastwardly on the islands. Judging by what has 



Arctic Searching Expedition, I, p. 318, 1851. 

 ^ Water Birds N. A., I, p. 466, 1884. 

 ^ Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIY, p. 424, 1891. 

 ^ Narrative Journey to Arctic Ocean, II, p. 77, 1836. 

 ^ Ann. Rept. Dept. Interior (Canada) for 1900-1901, p. 122, 1902. 

 f Cat. Birds" Eggs Brit. Mus., II, p. 152, 1902. 

 ^'App. Ross's Second Voyage, p. xl, 1835. 

 ^ Journ. Voyage to Baffin Bay, p. 203, 1835. 

 ^ Voyage of the Resolute, p. 421, 1857. 

 j Last of Arctic Voyages, I, p. 315, 1855. 



