No. 20.] THE BIRDS OF CONNECTICUT. 29 ' 



Unusual records. June 26, 1888, Portland (J. L. Goff) ; July 

 31, 1879, Portland (J. H. S.). 



H. K. J. reports the Merganser as a fairly common migrant 

 and winter resident in Litchfield County between November and 

 April. 1 



Mergus serrator Linnaeus. Red-breasted Merganser. 

 A rather common winter resident on the Sound from Novem- 

 ber to March ; occasional inland. 



Earliest record. New Haven, Oct. 21, 1882. 



Latest record. New Haven, April 4, 1895. 



Inland record. Portland, Nov. 9, 1884 (in coll. of W. W. C). 



Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus). Hooded Merganser. 



A rare and irregular spring and fall migrant. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. Portland, March 6, 1876. 

 Latest record. Portland, April 1, 1899. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. Litchfield, Sept. 15, 1905 

 (L. S. W.). Latest record. Portland, Dec. 5, 1887. 



Several specimens of the Hooded Merganser have been shot 

 in the Quinnipiac Marshes (North Haven) and in Lake Saltonstall 

 (East Haven) ; viz., Jan. 9, 1883, one (L. C. S.) ; Oct., 1885, three 

 young (L. C. S.) ; Nov. 14, 1904, two young (A. J. G.) ; March, 

 1904, one (A. J. G.) ; March, 1904, several (Devine) ; March 20, 

 1907, two (Uhl) ; Nov. 11-13, 1908, seven (Haines, in coll. of 

 L. B. B.). 



H. K. J. reports that Mr. C. H. Williams " saw a female with 

 young in Winchester about fifteen years ago" (c. 1893 ). 1 



Dr. William Wood of East Windsor Hill wrote in 1880: " It 

 is not common here, yet some seasons I get half a dozen or more, 

 and then several seasons may intervene before another is 

 captured." 2 



There is a male of this species in the collection of J. M. W. 

 shot on a pond in Canterbury late in October, 1880. 3 Mr. J. Y. 

 Stetson of New Haven has an adult male which he shot from a 

 pair at Neversink Lake, Danbury, late in March, about 1885. 



1 Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 290. 

 a O. and O., v, 12, p. 93. 

 a O. and O., v, 10, p. 78. 



