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Ring-necked Duck (Marila collaris). Specimen in the Smith col- 

 lection. Reported common by Mr. Lee. He stated that a party of 

 hunters at Wall lake killed one hundred twenty-five in 1904. 



Buffle-head (Charitonetta albeola). Three specimens in the Smith 

 collection. Reported common by Mr. Lee. I saw one in the " Goose- 

 pond " May 5, 1914. 



Old-squaw Duck (Harelda hyemalis). One specimen, a male, in 

 the Smith collection. Mr. Smith said that this was the only one 

 he ever saw, and considered it very rare. No others reported it. 



Ruddy Duck {Erismatura jamaiccnsis). Two specimens in the 

 Smith collection. Mr. Lee reported it rare. 



Lesser Snow Goose (Chen 'hyper'boreus hijperboreus) . Specimen 

 in the Smith collection. They are rare migrants at the present 

 day. Mr. Lee reported that snow geese were quite common in early 

 days, he having seen acres covered with them. He stated that they 

 never nested but stayed about a month in spring and were rare 

 in fall. Both Mr. Smith and Mr. Lee said they were very poor 

 eating as they never got fat. On April 3, 1914, I counted eight 

 snow geese in a flock of blue geese, which had alighted in the corn- 

 field back of our barn. On March 28, 1915, I saw seven snow geese 

 in a large fiock of blue geese. I called them lesser snow geese 

 because they were approximately the same size as the blue geese. 



Blue Goose (Chen cwrulescens) . Specimen in the Smith collec- 

 tion. Mr. Smith said that the one he had mounted was the only 

 one he ever saw. Mr. Lee considered them rare, reporting about 

 one hundred snow geese to one blue goose. In my experience this 

 goose cannot be called rare at the present day. On April 2, 1914, 

 about fifty blue geese and three snow geese alighted in a cornfield 

 about one-half mile from our house. I took my binoculars and 

 got close enough to see the rusty wash on their white heads 

 and necks in addition to their blue bodies. The next day a larger 

 fiock of eight snow geese and one hundred sixty blue geese (I 

 counted them, and they were so thick I missed a few) alighted 

 and rested for some time on a bluegrass pasture. Later they 

 alighted in a cornfield only about twenty rods from our barn, from 

 which I watched them through my field glasses. On March 28, 1915, 

 an enormous fiock of blue geese came up the Boyer river valley 

 from the southwest and after much preliminary circling they 

 alighted in a dense mass about the center of the " Goosepond," 

 where they remained until I left, or for over two hours. It was 

 impossible to count them, but I estimated their number at two 

 thousand or over. The fiock contained seven snow geese. On April 

 2nd I again saw what I think was the same fiock of blue geese, 

 as there were seven snow geese in it. They were fiying in im- 

 mense circles high in the heavens, honking as they flew. Local 



