Six years of patient study and research have just brought to a successful end a two-century chase of the elusive blue goose of the Arctic. The discovery was made on Baffin Island by Mr. J. Dewey Soper, a youbg Canadian ornithologist, after 4000 miles of travel by dog team and small boat. Even when the blue geese were observed in the_ proportion of six to one of snow geese it took ten days of weary-travel to find.the first nest.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 38, 14 February 1930, Page 4
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79Untitled Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 38, 14 February 1930, Page 4
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