48 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ANSERES. 



ANATIDAE. 



Birds of Europe, 1871-81, vol. 6, pi. [417], lower fig. Egg, See- 

 bohm, 1896, p. 30, pi. 11, fig. 3. 



Anser hyperboreus Pall., Spicilegia zool., 1769, fasc. 6, p. 25. 

 "in terris borealibus, ad orientem 130°. longitudinis, 

 sive circa Lenam et Ianam fluvios." 



Salt and fresh water; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Rare fall migrant. Oct. 2-Dec. 



N. H. — Rare fall migrant: Lake Umbagog, Oct. 2, 1896; Sea- 

 brook. 



Vt. — Rare fall migrant: Lake Champlain; ? Lunenburg; St. 

 Jolmsbury. 



Mass. — Rare migrant. April 13, 1908, Townsend; (? July) 

 Oct. 15-Xov. 21. 



R. I. — Rare fall migrant. Sept. 3-Oct. 16. 



Conn. — Rare fall migrant: Saybrook, fall, 1875; Stratford, 

 Oct. 5, 1842. 



91. Chen hyperborea nivalis (Forster) Ridgway. 



Greater snow goose; Wavy. 



Ridgway, Manual No. Amer. birds, 1887, p. 115. 



Anas nivalis Forster, Phil, trans, roy. soc. London, 1772, vol. 

 62, p. 413. "Severn- River," Hudson Bay. 



Ansrr hyperboreus Gmel. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1843, 

 vol. 6, p. 212, pi. 381, fig. 1. 



Salt and fresh water; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Now an accidental visitor: Georgetown, April 25, 1903; 

 mouth of Kennebec River, April 7, 1890; Lubec, April 30, 1906. 



Mass. — Now an accidental visitor: near Springfield (Morris); 

 various doubtful records. 



Conn. — Now an accidental visitor: Stratford, three wintered, 

 1867-68 (fide Averill); also listed by Linsley (1843), but may 

 have been C. hyperborea. 



