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



sixties, in the possession of a gunner at Milford Point. He also 

 reports one shot in South Kent a few years ago (about 1900). 



Branta bernicla glaucogastra (Brehm). Brant. 



A rare straggler on the Sound in the fall and winter. 



Linsley recorded the Brant as " common " in Stratford in the 

 winter. Merriam 1 gives the following records: spring, 1877, 

 Stratford Light, two killed (Grinnell) ; April 14, 1876, mouth of 

 East Haven River, three seen (Osborne) ; spring, 1876, Con- 

 necticut River above Hartford, one shot (Dr. Wood). 



The following recent records appear: 1893-4-5, a large num- 

 ber wintered off Stamford (Porter) ; Dec. 21, 1895, Stony Creek, 

 a male taken by E. M. Cooper (in coll. of L. B. B.) ; Feb. 21, 

 1903, Stratford, two males and one female shot by G. Greenway 

 (in coll. of L. C. S. and L. B. B.). 



Subfamily Cygnin^:. Swans. 



Olor columbianus (Ord). Whistling Swan. 



The only records for Connecticut are as follows: Linsley 

 mentions four specimens, two of which were killed, at Stratford; 

 Merriam 2 records that two Swans were seen in Branford Harbor 

 during a severe gale about the middle of March, 1876 (Beers), 

 and several were seen at the same time near Milford (Grinnell) ; 

 a young bird was shot off Grass Island, Guilford Harbor, by Mr. 

 Reuben Hill, Nov. 2 or 3, 1893, and mounted by Capt. Brooks 3 

 (now "in the possession of Mr. Norton of Guilford) ; an adult 

 taken in Fairfield is in the Linsley collection of the Bpt. Sci. Soc. 



Order HERODIONES. Herons, Storks, Ibises, etc. 

 Suborder IBIDES. Spoonbills and Ibises. 

 Family IBIDIDiE. Ibises. 

 Guara alba (Linnaeus). White Ibis. 



The only record for New England is one reported by Merriam 4 

 as seen by G. B. Grinnell, who wrote: " Late in the afternoon of 

 May 23 (1875), I observed near Milford, Conn., a specimen of 

 Ibis alba. I recognized the bird as it flew over me, and following 

 it to a small pond, where it went down, discovered it perched upon 



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

 'Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 120. 

 3 Reported by "L. B. B. f Auk, xi, 1, p. 74. 

 ♦Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. no. 



