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STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



Bela Hubbard (Memorials of a Half Century, p. 283) tells of two joining a Hock of tame 

 geese at the west end of Lake Erie where they remained two weeks till shot. 



4J9 !()?). 1-((J!>4). Chen oiorulesceiis (Lmn.). Blue Goose. 



One specimen reported in Kent Scientific Institute at Grand Rapids by E. L. Mose- 

 ley ; " a single male bird in my collection purchased October 30, 1885 in Bay City 

 market from a dozen killed by night on small lake north of Bay City" (N. A. Eddy); 

 two captured from a flock on St. Clair Flats by the late W. H. Collins ; " regular 

 migrant throughout Wisconsin" (Prof. Ludwig Kumlein); " Indiana" (Butler's Birds 

 of Indiana). 



Genus AN8ER Bbiss. 



70 171a-l,(>i)3 ). Auser albifrous gambeli {Hartl.). ^American White fronted 

 Goose. 



" Transient, rare " (Dr. M. Gibbs); " migrant " (Dr. J. B. Steere); " Keweenaw Point " 

 (Kneeland); "Indiana, rare migrant" (Butler's Birds of Indiana). This is unques- 

 tionably very rare in Michigan. 



Genus BRANTA Soop. 



Canada Gooee, redaced. 



71-172-( 702 ). Hraiita eanadonsis {Linn.). *Canada Goose; Common Wild 

 Goose. 



Common ; February to April, and September even to December; throughout the entire 

 state ; often seen flying over in March and November, and occasionally much earlier 



