96 EEPOET OF NEW JEESEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Abundant transient and winter resident; probably the most com- 

 mon game bird of Barnegat Bay. At Cape May Mr. Hand tells me it 

 is only a straggler, the flights keeping well off shore. Occurs from 

 October to May. Mr. Fowler reports it as occasional on the Delaware. 



1/4 Branta nigricans (Lawrence). 

 Black Brant. 



Adults.— L,ength, 22-29. Wing, 12.50-13.50. Similar to the Common Brant, 

 but upper parts darker and more sooty ; abdomen, dark sooty, scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable from the breast, but anal region and crissum, white ; neck with 

 larger white areas, forming a nearly complete collar. 



Winter straggler from the West; rare. 



Mr. G. N. Lawrence obtained the type specimen of this species at 

 Egg Harbor, January, 1846, and later two more were obtained at the 

 same place.^ Mr. John Krider shot one at Barnegat and another at 

 Beesley's Point,^ and Mr. W. E. D. Scott^ saw two taken by gunners, 

 April 5th, 1877, at Long Beach. 



180 Olcr columbianus (Ord). 

 Whistling Swan. 



Adults. — Length, 55. Wing, 21-22. Whole plumage, pure white; bill, lores 

 and feet, black, sometimes with a small yellow spot on the lores. 

 Young in first winter, ashy gray ; bill, flesh color ; feet, grayish. 



Eare transient. 



One was shot on the Delaware Eiver, below Philadelphia, Decem- 

 ber, 1890, by Mr. W. V. Wilbank,* and others have occasionally been 

 taken in the same vicinity, 



Mr. W. E. D. Scott saw a flock of nine passing over Barnegat Bay 

 in November, 1876,=^ and Mr. H. W. Hand tells me that a flock of four 

 passed over Cape May in the eighties, and one was shot. In the 

 winter of 1908-1909 several were seen on Barnegat Bay, and one was 

 shot at Atlantic City, in January. 



"■ Ann. Lye, N. Y., IV., p. 171. 



= Field Notes, p. 71. 



^ Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1879, p. 226. 



* Stone, Birds of E. Pa. and N. J., p. 60. 



=* Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1879, p. 226. 



