. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1959 Hohn: Birds of the Anderson River 103 ARCTIC N IBANKS, -VICTORIA. Q MILES 120 t 1 â â â I LEGEND ^ Snow Goose -> Black Brant Figure 4. Sketch map of northwestern Canada to show spring migration routes of Snow Geese and Black Brant. August 27; and several flocks of 50 to 100 flying south over Cape Dalhousie, August 22. On August 19, noted flocks of 5 to 20 passing Nicholson Peninsula; some flocks alighted and then took off again. He estimated a total of 300 to 500. Owing to unsettled weather, the direction of this flight to and from the pen
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1959 Hohn: Birds of the Anderson River 103 ARCTIC N IBANKS, -VICTORIA. Q MILES 120 t 1 â â â I LEGEND ^ Snow Goose -> Black Brant Figure 4. Sketch map of northwestern Canada to show spring migration routes of Snow Geese and Black Brant. August 27; and several flocks of 50 to 100 flying south over Cape Dalhousie, August 22. On August 19, noted flocks of 5 to 20 passing Nicholson Peninsula; some flocks alighted and then took off again. He estimated a total of 300 to 500. Owing to unsettled weather, the direction of this flight to and from the peninsula was uncertain. One flock was seen coming in from the north- east. On August 21, noted the passage of further flocks of Snow Geese here in flocks of 50 to 100, the day's total being several hundred. It is likely that most of the geese seen at Nicholson Peninsula on August 19 were from the mouth of the Anderson, displaced by flooding of their haunts by the storm of August 18. Observations: Throughout my stay, there were about 400 Snow Geese on the islands in the mouth of the Anderson River and the low-lying west bank of the river, but after the storm of August 18 there were only 60 to 100 left. The only other places where I saw Snow Geese on the ground were at the mouth of the Mason River (a pair July 15) and two groups of 2 and 3 in tlie creek entering Harrowby Bay seen from the plane July 26. The first young were seen on July 8 when a group of adults with downies were swimming from the east shore of the river, where no doubt they had nested, to one of the islands in the river mouth. By August 13, both adults and young were able to fly. On August 8 I found a group of 20 empty nests still containing shell fragments and nest down on a hummock of raised ground covered mainly with dwarf birch, in the marshy grassland of the west bank of the Anderson River. A flock of about 20 was seen flying southwards over a locality some 5 miles in- land from Stanton on August 16.
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