No.i.] COUES'S ORNITII. JJIJJLIOGKAl'lIY ANATID^. 979 



1879. Hknshaw, II. W. Occuncucc of Koss'a Goose (Auser [Clieu] ro«sii) „u the 

 Pacific Coast [of the United States] and Inland. < Bull. Xuit Ontith Club 

 iv, No. 2, Apr., 1879, p. 126. ' " ' 



1879. [INGEKSOLL, E. ] [Occurrence of Anser hyperboreus (var. albatus ?) in Ireland. ] 



< ^cteHce .Ye!t)a, i, No. 5, Jtiu. 1, 1879, p. 76. 

 Referring to the captun^s before announced by J. E. Harting, in . 



1879. "J. P. H." Ducks Attracted by Light. < Forest and Slnam, xiii, Nov. (I 1-79 

 p. 785. ' ' 



"Coota," (Edemia, kiUed by Hying against the windowa of a light-house. 

 1879. Neilson, J. Another Rare Bird. <^Nexv8paper of Quebec, Canada, name un- 

 known, date late in May (about the2l8t), 1879. 



Description indicates Aia sponsa, and a colored drawing of the Load sent to the Smith- 

 soman by J. M. Le Moine of Quebec confirms this diagnosis. The specimen wae albinotic to 

 a degree. i ^ «» 



1879. Trimen, R. [Letter relating to the habitat of Pleotropterus nieer (Zanzibar) 1 

 < P. Z. S., Jan. 14, 1879, p. 5. ^ e v. au^iuar^. j 



