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^ 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. Green way 

 (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^ 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^ 

 (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 I BIDES. Spoonbills and Ibises. 

 Family IBIDID^. Ibises. 

 Guara alba (Linnaeus). White Ibis, 



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

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

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

 Ihis 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 



iMerriam, Birds of Conn., p. 121. 

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

 3 Reported by L. B. B., Auk, xi, i, p. 74. 

 * Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. no. 



