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I reached the Baker Creek region on May 6 Mr. Julius Quanstrom

told me that a flock of 20 had been seen there on May 4, flying low
over Puntchesakut Lake ;

At Francois Lake in the spring of 1943 a flock of geese, chiefly
brant, that is cackling geese, remained until June 5 They were quite
tame and fed alongside domestic geese and chickens (personal letter
from J. Sugden) 'Tameness' seems characteristic of cackling geese
in spring and has been observed elsewhere

White-fronted Goose--Anser albifrons (Scopoli )

Between May 2 and May 5, 1933, a single goose, identified as
of this species, was observed feeding with a flock of snow geese
on Timothy Hill near Telkwa and on May 29, 1944, seven in company
with four geese of the canadensis type were observed on a meadow
near Smithers Both records are those of C. D. Muirhead. Other
less exact accounts concerning the occurrence of this goose in
central British Columbia have been received

Snow Goose--Chen hyperborea (Pallas).

There appears to have been an unusually large and wide-spread
spring migration of this species through central British Columbia
in 1944 Snow geese were observed early in May at several places
in the Cariboo Parklands and a number of residents there reported
seeing ‘white geese!’ for the first time. - Farther north a flock
of ll alighted on the meadows on Trueman's ranch at Dragon Lake on
April 30 and were still there when I visited that place on May 6.
Mr. Trueman told me that he first saw snow geese at Dragon Lake in
the spring of 1940 and that each year since a few have visited his
meadows in spring.

A Nazko Indian, Jimmy Lick, reported that early in May, le
white geese had been on Speer's Lake which is about 50 miles west
of @uesnel. He had never seen snow geese before and took them for
swans or pelicans until he cane close to them--he said.

Mr. R. F. Corless, who operates a river freight service to
Fort MacLeod, saw 30 'waveys' on Summit Lake early in May. Later
these, or other snow geese, were seen 18 miles north on the Crooked

River and still later at Fort MacLeod.

Mr J. S. McAllister reported the presence of a flock, that
at one time contained 117, on Aleza Lake between May 1 and May 20.

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