(COPY) 
August 4th, 1922. 
Dr. E. W. Nelson, 
Bureau of Biological Survey, 
Washington, D. C. 
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Dear Dr. Nelson: 
Here is a letter from Pettibone of Dawson, N. D. that may 
be of interest to you. 
X have a letter from Morton Barrows of St. Paul. He is a 
brother of Walter B. Barrows of Lansing, Mich. He began hunting 
geese about the time I did - 1883 and says: 
"Some years ago at Heron Lake, Minn., I saw 
a stuffed goose which people there told me weigh¬ 
ed twenty-four pounds, and certainly the stuffed 
specimen looked that large. It was simply enormous." 
He says in 1888, as near as he can remember, he and his father 
were shooting south of Murdock in Swift County, Minn., and killed one 
goose that he put upon the scales after he reached home, which weighed 
over 16 lbs. 
Surely there is more variation between these big geese and 
the Canada than there is between the Canada and the Hutchins. 
Yours truly. 
(Signed) W. B. Mershon 
