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with a loud cry from one of the lower limbs of a massive pine above his head, 
ddiis was the only occasion on which a l)ird was seen to alight in a tree. 
.\ long day’s work at the marsh on June 9 revealed three more nests. The 
fiirst of these, one with six eggs, well incnl^ated, was the most perfectly hnilt nest 
of the goose that I have ever seen, being constructed wdth all the care that most 
of the smaller birds exercise. It was made principally of dry marsh grasses. The 
second nest held a set of fiA^e eggs, and was placed by a small willow on a little 
mound of earth rising in a tide patch in a secluded portion of the swamp. Dry 
tides entered largely into its composition. In this instance the bird did not rise 
until we were within twenty-five feet, although they usually flushed at a distance 
varying from forty to one hundred feet. The last nest, found and collected by 
Carriger, was deserted, having' been hooded liy the recent rise of water. The six 
eggs it contained were addled. 
In closing 1 may say the recording of the White-cheeked Goose (Braiifa 
Eig. 26. YOUNG CAN.AD.-V GEE.SE, TWO .MONTHS OLH. R.VISED IN CAPTIVITY. 
TAKE T.AHOE, C.ALIFORNI.A 
canadensis occidcntalis) at Lake Tahoe ( I’acific Coast .Vvifauna, Xo. 3, p. 21), 
not being based, so far as I have l)een able to learn, on an actual skin, seems very 
questionable: personally.! consider it an error. Regarding the specimen collecte;!, 
now numlier 17,224 of the collection of the Museum of \Trtebrate Zoology at 
Ilerkeley, IMr. Grinnell writes as follows: "As to the identity of the goose, it is 
not the White-cheeked Goose, as has been generally supposed since the early 
writings of Belding. We have here what is commonly called the M’hite-cheeked 
Goose {B. c. occidcntalis) from the Sitkan district. It is slightly smaller and 
r’cri' niuch darker than your bird. Your l^ird is jiractically a duplicate of one 
we have here from southern California, and Avhich we have always considered 
very close to B. c. canadoisis. In other words, the lireeding goose of the Sierras 
( and probably of all the lakes of northeastern California ) is the Canada Goose 
(Branta canadensis canadensis) , or at least the closest to it of any of the described 
forms." 
