[211] Branta canadensis hutchinsi (Richardson). This smaller form of the Canada Goose was named in honour of Thomas Hutchins, a Hudson's Bay Company officer who made natural history collections on Hudson Bay, and was the first to call attention to this race. It breeds on the Barren Grounds.
[212] Chen hyperboreus nivalis (Forster). This larger form of C. hyperboreus was first described from Severn River specimens. Though much reduced in numbers, it still breeds about the northern part of Hudson Bay, and is an important food species in the region.
[213] Chen cærulescens (Linn.). First described from a Hudson Bay specimen. According to the natives it breeds in the interior of northern Ungava; west of Hudson Bay, it is known only as a straggler. It winters in the Mississippi valley and on the Atlantic coast.
[214] This is the first account of Chen rossi, formally described by Cassin in 1861 from specimens taken on Great Slave Lake. It is almost unknown on Hudson Bay, but is abundant in migrations about Great Slave and Athabaska lakes. It breeds somewhere to the northward of this region, but its summer home is unknown.
[CN] Mr. Moses Norton.
[215] Anser albifrons gambeli Hartl. An inhabitant of the west coast of Hudson Bay, but more common in the Mackenzie valley.
[216] Probably referring, as Hearne suggests, to abnormally large and perhaps barren individuals of the Canada Goose (Branta canadensis).
[217] Branta bernicla glaucogastra (Brehm). Still occurring in some numbers along the west coast of Hudson Bay, in migrations, and breeding about its northern shores.
[218] Both Somateria mollissima borealis (Brehm), and S. dresseri Sharpe, occur about the north-west coast of Hudson Bay in summer, and doubtless both breed there. The King Eider also, S. spectabilis (Linn.), migrates down the coast, but probably breeds farther to the north.
[219] The Bean Goose, Anser fabalis (Latham), is of very doubtful occurrence in the Hudson Bay region.