383 Gilmore EMPEROR GOOSE (C) 1931 to eat and sleep and loaf to their hearts' content. At times they wind their way to fresh water to drink. Their food consists of the mussels which are found clinging to the rocks in great numbers. Whether they eat the mussels whole, or somehow manage to break them open, is a mystery to me, but the stomach, gizzard and large intestines contain the tiny fragments of their shells and the meat has that strong rank odor so characteristic of sea Anatidae. The bluish gray mottling of the body with the white head and neck combine to make the bird singularly conspicuous and beautiful in flight or at rest. Their call is a short cry - very goose-like in sound. Oct. 24. Akutan Is. E. Aleutian Is. While cruising along the N.E. & N. Shores of the island on our way to Aleutiska we saw three or four flocks of geese. One pair found the boat directly in their line of flight and showing no fear, kept right