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FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ANSERES. 



ANATIDAE. 



Me.— Common migrant. (Feb. 28) Mar. 5-May; Oct. 13- 

 Dec. 8. 



N. H., Vt. — Common migrant. Mar. 11-April; Oct.-Dec. 7. 



Mass. — Common migrant, formerly summer resident (said to 

 have bred at Lexington, late April, 1888); may winter rarely on 

 south coast. Mar. 8- June 5; (Aug. 3) Sept. 21-Dec. 30 (Jan. 10; 

 Jan. 31). 



R. I. — Common migrant. Mar. 13-May 7; Sept. 17-Dec. 29. 



Conn. — Common migrant and less common winter resident. 

 Mar.-May 22; Oct .-winter. 



95. Branta canadensis hutchinsii (Richardson) Coues. 



Hutchins's goose; ? Southern goose. 



Coues, Key to No. Amer. birds, ed. 5, 1903, vol. 2, p. 905. 



Anser hntchinsii Rich., in Swainson and Rich., Fauna Boreali- 

 Amer., 1831, vol. 2, p. 470. "Melville Peninsula," Arctic 

 America. Audubon, Ornith. biogr., 1835, vol. 3, p. 226, pi. 277. 



Fresh and salt water; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Accidental migrant: Cape Elizabeth, Nov. 13, 1894; 

 Portland, spring 1899; Rangeley. 



Mass. — Supposed to occur as a migrant. 



Conn." — ? Uncommon fall migrant; said to arrive later than 

 B. canadensis and to pass at once south (Merriam, 1877). 



96. Branta bernicla glaucogastra (C. L. Brehm) Coues. 



White-belUed brant; Blue brant; Brant; May brant. 



Bernicla glaucogasfer C. L. Brehm, Handb. d. naturgesch. aller 

 vogel Deutschl., 1831, p. 849. "aus dem hohen Xorden im 



HeRBSTE an die KtJSTEN DER DEUTSCHEN OSTSEE." 



Anser bernicla Linne. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1843, vol. 6, 

 p. 203, pi. 379. 



Salt water; nests on the ground. 



