Twenty-five Hoss'te -mpates were Banded end lo were oreurht Beck ali. The 
latter were sert from Churchill to the Delta Waterfowl Fesearch Station, Delta, 
Manitebe, and will later eo to the Severn Wildfowl Trust at Slimbridzes, Fneland, 
for study end prapagetion wirgases. Ome succumbed efter the journey. The other 
Q were exemiued under the fluorescops at Delta and 7 were found to be carrying 
Shot in vericus perts of the body. Sines the Eskimo rely almost esntirely on 22- 
caliber riflcs to securs gems, hunting seuth of the breeding grounds is ¥sery 
liksly responsitls for bedy shot in this species, 
White-fronted Goose ~ Anser albifrons sub. sp. 
Only one form of white-frented pees= was identified. Wo breeding colony 
wes Found but cairs uppsarsd to be scattered sparssly in ths atudy ares. Only 
four Ureeding pairs were located although many other individuals were sen, 
Sevan full grown birds and four roslines were collsetec, Until they hays teen 
eritically exemined and compared it ecarneat be stated that these were tyniesl 
tulsa geese. On the other hand they appeared to differ substantially from the 
typical A. a, aloifrons in the following ways Rilis of adult males much larrer, 
heads heavier, macks Lonyer, oluvacs mores brevn lass rerey, call of adult mele 
Fery Similar to sreyvlag. This call is unknown in A au, BloHifrorns, but other 
notss of the present form mrs Similar to A. a. albifrens, Tha syslids of somes 
specimens show a tendency to te yeliowish buff, tut not so much so as in A. a, 
llavirostis, the Greenland white-front, 
Weights of F spscimens: 
Adgult 6 6 lbs. & az. - Yearling * 5 lbs. 4 az. 
Adult 4 § lbs. 10 oz. Yearling ? 5 lbs, 4 of. 
Yearling é 4 lbs. 13 oa. Yearling ? 5 lbs. 3 902. 
Yearling ? 5 lbs, ? oz. 
It i8 thoucht that this atriking variation in size may nave accounted for 
Angus Gavin's report thet = races of uhite-franted rssss were to be found in 
the arsa. Two of these geese were brourht back alive and will fo te the Severn 
Wildfowl rust in england, Ths fluoresenp® snowed that the male wes carrying 
ia, & shot. 
Erant - Brante bernicla 
Qnly ones colony of breading brant was stucied. This was on an island 
about 1-1/2 miles sast et ths mouth of the Perry, There were Li nests, All 
the breeding pairs were typical BR. bh. nisricans but a Sinele femele which formed 
8 trio with fa pair of black Brant, but did not seam to have 2 nest, was typical 
of the race BE, tb. hrota, Lurinec sn asrinl survey from the Ellice River to the 
Araerk, «<— about 90 miles of cosstling, only one other colony of brants was 
observed, This cansistsd of seme 33 pairs with young broads and soms 40 breodlass 
moulting birds, The subspecias to which theses belonged could not be determined 
from the sir, No brants were breeding in the delta of the Perry. and the island 
mentioned by Gavin for its calony of Atlantic brant nas been deserted far several 
yeurs eceording to the Fsyimos. The black brant colony was found in the habitat 
reported by Gavin as that of the Atlantic race, 
Although all the nesting Tomales ware typical of B. hb. nipricans considereble 
Variation is the colour af the nest down was observed, some being dark brow 
whil® in other nesta it was fairly pals ¢rer. 
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