C. IT. Merruiru — Iiir(h of (Connecticut. 129 



common on suit wiiter. Kemains into April (April IV, 1S75, male 

 adult shot, Sage). 



259. MergUS serrator Linne. Red-breasted Merganser. 



A common migrant, wintering on the Sound. Captain IJrooks 

 writes me that they are "plenty during winter and spring " ahout 

 Faulkner's Island, Conn. Also found on fresh water. Kemains into 

 A])ril (April 14, 187G, Osborne). 



260. MergUS CUCUllatuS Linnt'. ITooded Merganser. 



A winter resident ; not common. Linsley obtained two specimens 

 from a fresh water pond near Stratford, Conn., and Captain Brooks 

 has one, killed at Guilford, Conn., on salt water. Mr. W. W. Coe 

 has taken it during the migrations, and I saw one in November, 

 1875. Dr. Wood has taken it near East Windsor, but finds it rarely. 

 IVfr. Sage writes me tliat one was killed neai" Middletown, Conn., 

 March 6th, is7tj. 



Family, SULID^. 



261. Sula bassana Linne. Common Gannet -, 8olon Goose. 



A rare winter visitant. Captain Brooks writes me from Faulk- 

 ner's Island, that he has " oidy seen two specimens," one of which is 

 now in his collection: "It was killed at Guilford, Conn., in the 

 spring, about ten years ago." Ijinsley took it at Stratford, Conn., 

 and, concerning its gastronomic proclivities, remarks: "The true 

 Solon Goose killed here, which I presented to the Yale Natural His- 

 tory Society, had in its stomach a bird, and in the stomach of the 

 latter was also a bird — destruction on destruction. Mr. B. Silliman, 

 Jr., and Di'. Whelpley, who opened the stomach, observed this fact, 

 as the former gentleman informed me. It was previously supposed 

 this bird lived wholly on fishes."* Giraud saw a few specimens, 

 killed about Long Island and in the vicinity of New York City.f 

 Mr. Kobert Morris tells me that he saw an adult specimen, shot oif 

 Branford late in the fall of 1872 or 1873. There is also, in a res- 

 taurant in New Haven, a mounted exam})le of the young of the Solon 

 Goose, killed near here a few years ago. 



* Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, vol. xliv, No. 2, p. 271, April, 184H. 

 f Girand's Birds of Long Island, p. 34.5, 1844. 

 Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. IV. 17 Aug., 187 7. 



