. Catalogue of Canadian birds [microform] : part I, water birds, gallinaceous birds, and pigeons, including the following orders : pygopodes, longipennes, tubinares, steganopodes, anseres, herodiones, paludicolæ, limicolæ, gallinæ, and columbæ. Water-birds; Birds; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux. CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 125 abundant during the summer in some portions of the mainland interior. The young have been taken on Vancouver Island. Brooks says that a swan, (apparently this species) winters in suit- able localities in the Okanagan district, Breeding species builds on th
. Catalogue of Canadian birds [microform] : part I, water birds, gallinaceous birds, and pigeons, including the following orders : pygopodes, longipennes, tubinares, steganopodes, anseres, herodiones, paludicolæ, limicolæ, gallinæ, and columbæ. Water-birds; Birds; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux. CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 125 abundant during the summer in some portions of the mainland interior. The young have been taken on Vancouver Island. Brooks says that a swan, (apparently this species) winters in suit- able localities in the Okanagan district, Breeding species builds on the ground and the nest usually contains five eggs; several were also found on the coast and islands of Liverpool and Franklin bays in the Arctic Ocean. {Macfarlam.) The birds arrive on the coast singly or in small parties, and directly after scatter to their summer haunts. At Nulato, Dall found them laying their eggs by May 21st, but on the sea-coast, May 30th is the earliest date I have of their eggs bemg taken. Dall states that they lay two eggs, but this must refer to a single nest, for the ordinary number is from three to SIX. The nest is usually upon a small island in some secluded lakelet, or on a rounded bank close to the border of a pond The eggs are deposited in a depression made in a heap of rubbish gathered by the birds from the immediate vicinity of the nest and is composed of grass, moss, and dead leaves, forming a bulky affair in many cases. On June 14th, 1880, a swan was seen flying from the side of a small pond on the marsh near St. Michael and a close search finally revealed the nest. The eggs were com- pletely hidden in loose moss, which covered the ground about the spot, and in which the bird had made a depression by pluck- ing the moss and arranging it for that purpose. The site was so artfully chosen and prepared that I passed the spot in my search and one of my native hunters coming close behind, called me back, and thrusting his stick into the moss exp
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