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Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Michalaski. 
with the Brent Geese; hut by far the greater number went 
further north. 
White-headed Goose. Anser -? 
NudfdrAik, Eski. 
[Probably Chloephaga canagica of Dali & Bannister^s paper 
(p. 396.)] 
This bird^ of which I can find no notice, I first met with 
at Port Clarence, and I mistook it for a young Snow-Goose. 
An old hunter at Michalaski, in enumerating the birds to 
me, told me of a Goose with a white head and a blue body. 
I thought it might be the Bernicle; but then it had a yellow 
bill, and I was puzzled. He said that very few came, but 
generally some every year, and that they were excellent eating. 
On the 16th of May I came suddenly upon a flock of eight 
of them—their white heads conspicuous. I could not get 
within less than 200 yards without showing myself; so I took 
out my glass to examine them at my leisure : they were 
standing just in the water at the edge of a lake, preening 
their feathers. They appeared to be about the size of Anser 
albifrons, but of a stouter and heavier build; the head and 
about two inches of the neck perfectly white ; the back and 
wing-coverts greyish blue, with broad bars of black and nar¬ 
row ones of white; the lower part of the neck of the same 
colour; belly and breast light dirty grey, darker on the flanks ; 
quills and tail black, or nearly so j feet and bill pale reddish 
orange. They reminded me much of the Anser leucopsis 
(Flem.); but they were larger, had more white, and no black 
on the neck, and their bills and legs were red instead of black. 
When I had well examined them, I endeavoured to get within 
shot of them ; but they rose and I saw no more of them. The 
bird is well known to the natives; and their name for it is 
derived from the wwd Nud-jar-huk,^'’ a cap. 
Brent Goose. Anser bernicla. 
LukAod-nukj Eski. 
[Bernicla nigricans^ Dali & Bann. p. 295.] 
Vast numbers of these birds arrive in the middle of May, 
in large flocks. The first I noticed on the 12th. They keep 
