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3 2 4 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN
Michael and the Yukon mouth, it appears evident that it is
found in Alaska as a straggler, or not at all. He, however,
records specimens taken at Sitka. Mr. Brooks says it is
much rarer than the Canada goose proper in the lower
Fraser River valley. There is not a single specimen of bird
or egg of this large Canadian goose in the National Museum
at Ottawa!
1 7 4 . B L A C K BRANT— B r a n t a nigricans ( Lawrence).
Professor Macoun has somehow made no reference whatever
to the following entry in the aforesaid paper: " This
goose is exceedingly abundant on the Arctic coast of Liverpool
Bay, but it is comparatively rare in Franklin Bay.
Large numbers of eggs were obtained by the Eskimos in the
first mentioned, but hardly any in the latter, locality. We
never, however, observed any of these birds passing the post
on their usual spring and autumn migrations. Six hundred
and fifty eggs were packed up for shipment from Fort Anderson
for the Smithsonian Institution." Mr. Ross thinks this
may be Cassin's B. nigricans of the Pacific Fauna.
According to Mr. Murdoch, " the nest of this bird is
placed in rather marshy ground, and is a simple depression
lined with down, with which the eggs are completely covered
when the parent leaves the nest. They sometimes begin to
sit on four eggs and sometimes lay as many as six." The
Ottawa Museum Collection holds but one pair, shot at Kadiak
Island, Alaska, and no eggs!
1 8 0 . W H I S T L I N G SWAN— O l o r columbianus ( Ord).
For some time back swans seem to be annually dwindling
in numbers. At Fort Anderson, however, twenty nests were
secured and duly forwarded to the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington.
The maximum number of eggs taken in the referred- to
twenty nests of this swan which I find recorded was five,
while the nests were always placed on the ground. Several
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| OCR | 3 2 4 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN Michael and the Yukon mouth, it appears evident that it is found in Alaska as a straggler, or not at all. He, however, records specimens taken at Sitka. Mr. Brooks says it is much rarer than the Canada goose proper in the lower Fraser River valley. There is not a single specimen of bird or egg of this large Canadian goose in the National Museum at Ottawa! 1 7 4 . B L A C K BRANT— B r a n t a nigricans ( Lawrence). Professor Macoun has somehow made no reference whatever to the following entry in the aforesaid paper: " This goose is exceedingly abundant on the Arctic coast of Liverpool Bay, but it is comparatively rare in Franklin Bay. Large numbers of eggs were obtained by the Eskimos in the first mentioned, but hardly any in the latter, locality. We never, however, observed any of these birds passing the post on their usual spring and autumn migrations. Six hundred and fifty eggs were packed up for shipment from Fort Anderson for the Smithsonian Institution." Mr. Ross thinks this may be Cassin's B. nigricans of the Pacific Fauna. According to Mr. Murdoch, " the nest of this bird is placed in rather marshy ground, and is a simple depression lined with down, with which the eggs are completely covered when the parent leaves the nest. They sometimes begin to sit on four eggs and sometimes lay as many as six." The Ottawa Museum Collection holds but one pair, shot at Kadiak Island, Alaska, and no eggs! 1 8 0 . W H I S T L I N G SWAN— O l o r columbianus ( Ord). For some time back swans seem to be annually dwindling in numbers. At Fort Anderson, however, twenty nests were secured and duly forwarded to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. The maximum number of eggs taken in the referred- to twenty nests of this swan which I find recorded was five, while the nests were always placed on the ground. Several |
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