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BIEDS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 319
of Eskimo Lake. The Ottawa Museum has only one fine
skin specimen, shot at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, April
28th, 1897, and not a single egg!
169a. GREATER SNOW GOOSE— Chen hyperborea nivalis
Ridgway.
During our ( 1861- 1866) residence at Fort Anderson we
secured over one hundred eggs of both species, which had
not at that time been definitely separated. They were all
obtained from the Eskimos, who assured us that they had
found them in nests placed among the marshy flats and on
reedy sand islets on the sea- coast as well as on the low banks
of the so- called Eskimo Lake, west of the lower Anderson
River. Neither kind was ever observed by us on the Anderson
Barren Grounds, although that accurate and distinguished
scientist, Sir John Richardson, as quoted by Prof.
John Macoun, recorded them as " breeding in immense
numbers in the Barren Grounds along the Arctic coast."
At Fort Chipewyan, where I resided from 1871 to 1885,
both waveys were for a time annually very abundant, especially
in the autumn, when great numbers were, as in the
spring, shot for immediate food consumption, and many
were also prepared for later use in course of the long winter,
when they proved an agreeable change from the usual bill of
fare. Mr. Ross says this is the first of the three white
waveys to arrive at Fort Resolution.
There is but one specimen, shot at Black Island, Lake
Winnipeg, by Mr. J . B . Tyrrell; also a set of three eggs, taken
on one of the Twin Islands, James Bay, Hudson Bay, in
1898, received from Mr. A . P . Low, in the Ottawa Museum!
This is surely the most southerly breeding point of a white
wavey on record.
170. Ross's SNOW GOOSE— Chen rossii ( Cassin).
An example skin of this small and interesting wavey
was shot near Fort St. James, Stuart's Lake, summer 1889,
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| OCR | BIEDS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 319 of Eskimo Lake. The Ottawa Museum has only one fine skin specimen, shot at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, April 28th, 1897, and not a single egg! 169a. GREATER SNOW GOOSE— Chen hyperborea nivalis Ridgway. During our ( 1861- 1866) residence at Fort Anderson we secured over one hundred eggs of both species, which had not at that time been definitely separated. They were all obtained from the Eskimos, who assured us that they had found them in nests placed among the marshy flats and on reedy sand islets on the sea- coast as well as on the low banks of the so- called Eskimo Lake, west of the lower Anderson River. Neither kind was ever observed by us on the Anderson Barren Grounds, although that accurate and distinguished scientist, Sir John Richardson, as quoted by Prof. John Macoun, recorded them as " breeding in immense numbers in the Barren Grounds along the Arctic coast." At Fort Chipewyan, where I resided from 1871 to 1885, both waveys were for a time annually very abundant, especially in the autumn, when great numbers were, as in the spring, shot for immediate food consumption, and many were also prepared for later use in course of the long winter, when they proved an agreeable change from the usual bill of fare. Mr. Ross says this is the first of the three white waveys to arrive at Fort Resolution. There is but one specimen, shot at Black Island, Lake Winnipeg, by Mr. J . B . Tyrrell; also a set of three eggs, taken on one of the Twin Islands, James Bay, Hudson Bay, in 1898, received from Mr. A . P . Low, in the Ottawa Museum! This is surely the most southerly breeding point of a white wavey on record. 170. Ross's SNOW GOOSE— Chen rossii ( Cassin). An example skin of this small and interesting wavey was shot near Fort St. James, Stuart's Lake, summer 1889, 21 |
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