OYGNUS BUCCINATOR?— ANSEU ALIJATUS. 619 



Lint of .specimens. 



2SS, (?«(/.,■ Oamp li(!, Triickee Meadows, Nevada, NovoiiiIrt is, I,s(i7. Wet 

 lueadow.. 2S— J:;ig— I'J^— 9-;|— 3i— ;5i — 4.^ — 1:^. Upper hall of upper iuaiidil)le, brown- 

 ish olivaceous-black, growing more brownish basally, this color coutinuiug iu a broad 

 stripe over the lore to the eye; sharply-defined stripe of pure leiuon-yellow above this, 

 on upper edge of bare loral space, and involving upper eyelid ; stripe of same on lower 

 edge of bare loral space, along angle of mouth, and continuing in a well-defined stripe 

 along the commissure, terminally blending into the brownish of the mandible. Lower 

 mandible, pale lemon-yellow, deepest basally; stripe of dusky brownish along upper 

 posterior portion. Iris, clear light sulphur-yellow next the pupil, shading exteriorly 

 into orange-brownish, this encircled narrowly with black. Tarsi and toes, bright yel- 

 lowish-grccu. Claws, pale brown, dusky toward i)oint. 



350, 9 «(?.; salt marshes, shore of Pyramid Lake, near mouth of Truckee, Decem- 

 ber 11, 1807. 134^—37— 11— SJ;— 25— ;!i—3A— 1:1. 8ame remarks. 



Family ANATIDiE— Swans, Geesi*], and Ducks.' 

 Cygnus buccinator.? 



Gytjnm buccinator, RicilAUD.SON, Fauna Bor. xiui., II, 1S31, 404. — Baiud, Birds 

 N.Am., 1858, 758; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1851), No. 502.- Coues, Key, 1872, 

 281; Check List, 1873, No. 470; Birds N.W., 1874, 544. 



In December, 18G7, Swans were exceedingly numerous iu the vicinity 



of Pyramid Lake, but as no specimens were obtained, we do not Ivuow 



certainly whether they were the Trumpeter or Whistler (C amcrkanas). 



Their note was almost exactly like that of the Sand-hill Crane {Gras miia- 



dcu.'^is). 



Anser albatus. 



Lesser Sbbow-Goosc. 



Amer aWatm, Cassin, Br. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1850,41.- Baird, Birds N. Am., 



1858, 925; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 503a. 

 Anscr hyperhorem var. albatus, COUES, Key, 1872, 282 ; Check List, 187.*., No. 18(»a. 

 Amcr hyperboreus. b. albatus, Coues, Birds N.W., 1874, 549. 

 Anser hyperboreus, Uenshaw, 1875, 470 ('?). 



This Goose, almost universally known as the "White Brant," was an 

 abundant winter visitant to the lakes of the Great Basin. 



' Our notes on many of the Auatidte are necessarily very brief, from the fact that 

 they are more difficult to observe than most other birds, except at certain times, when 

 the habits of all the species appear much the same. Many of them are also migratory, 

 and thus were seen only for a brief season. We must therefore pass by certiiiii s[)ecies 

 without further remarks than to note the season when observed, or a few similar fiuits. 



