40 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Oidemia perspicillata (Linnaeus). Surf Scoter. 



A common winter resident on the Sound, though not as com- 

 mon as O. deglandi, except in November. Rare inland. 



Earliest record. New Haven, Oct. 13, 1893. 



Latest record. New Haven, April 19, 1904; Stony Creek, 

 April 23, 1889 (J. H. S.). 



Inland record. Oct. 15, 1890, female shot at Portland by 

 J. L. Goff (in coll. of J. H. S.). 



Merriam 1 records one on the Sound as late as June 29, 1877. 



Erismatura jamaicensis (Gmelin). Ruddy Duck. 



Formerly a fairly common fall migrant on the Sound and 

 larger lakes; now rare. Very rare in the spring. 



Earliest record. New Haven, Oct. 24, 1885; Oct. 14, 1908 

 (P. B. Haines). 



Latest record. New Haven, Nov. 1, 1882; Portland, Nov. 12, 

 1889; Litchfield, Dec. I, 1906 (E. S. W.). 



Spring records. March 19, 1889, East Hartford, five seen 

 (W. E. T.) ; June 5, 1893, Portland, three of a flock of five killed 

 in Connecticut River (in coll. of J. H. S.). 



Recent records. Since 1896 we have the following records 

 only: Oct. 25, 1904, North Haven, a young female taken by 

 Mrs. L. A. Farnham (in coll. of L. B. B.) ; E. S. W. reported them 

 common on Bantam Lake, Litchfield, from Oct. 9 to Nov. II, 

 1905, also Nov. 24, 1906, and Oct. 11-28, 1907; E. S. W. shot 

 one, Dec. I, 1906; Oct. 14, 1908, a young male shot at North 

 Haven by P. B. Haines (in coll. of L. B. B.) ; April 13, 1906, 

 Lake Saltonstall (A. A. S.) ; Oct. 5, 1907, Lake Burton (A. 

 A. S.). 



Subfamily Anserine. Geese. 



Chen hyperboreus nivalis (J. R. Forster). Greater Snow 

 Goose. 



An extremely rare winter visitor. 



Connecticut records. Linsley records seven specimens of 

 Snow Geese from Stratford ; Merriam 2 reports a specimen in the 

 possession of W. W. C, which had been killed near Saybrook in 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 128. 

 2 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 121. 



