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6543. Whiting, Iowa, April 7, 1S85; length 26.50; wing 14 38; 

 bill 1.25; tail i6-feathered; weight ^^4 lbs.; faint traces of black 

 mottling on median line of throat. 



5344. Whiting, Iowa, March 23, 1886; weight 4^ lbs.; tail 

 14-feathered. 



7988. Whiting, Iowa, April 7, 1885; weight 5 lbs. 



5338. Whiting, Iowa. 



6724. Wolf Creek, Iowa, April 5, 1884. 



6728. Near Sloan, Iowa, April, 1884. 



The Cackling Goose was not reported by any observers in the 

 state and I am not aware of any published record of its occurrence 

 in Iowa. It is chiefly an inhabitant of western North America, 

 especially of the Pacific coast, and only occasionally appears in 

 the Mississippi Valle}-. It has not been recorded farther ea.st 

 than Illinois and Wisconsin and there are no authentic published 

 records from Nebraska, although I have examined several Ne- 

 bra.ska specimens in the Talbot collection which are undoubtedly 

 rninima. The species must be considered as only a casual migrant 

 in Iowa. 



63- (173)- Braiita beniida glancogastra (Rrehm). Brant. 



The Brant or Brant Goose is chiefly found along the Atlantic 

 coast and onl}^ rarely in the interior, principally^ along the Great 

 Lakes and rivers in migration. The species breeds within the 

 Arctic Circle. Dr. Coues (Birds of the Northwest, p. 557) says: 

 "While ascending the Missouri in October, 1872, I observed vast 

 numbers of the Common Brant in flocks on the banks and mud- 

 bars of the river." 



County records: Blackhawk — "frequent migrant" (Peck). 

 Boone — "rare migrant" (Henning). Iowa — "rare migrant; the 

 only one I ever saw was shot at Amana in 1902" (Berry). Jack- 

 son — Sabula — -"I have never handled specimens taken in Iowa, 

 but have seen birds very close which I and others took for Brant" 

 (H. A. Giddings). Poweshiek — "tolerably connnon transient" 

 (Kelsey); " large flocks B. brcnta Steph.; doubtless this .species" 

 (Poweshiek and Jasper, H. W. Parker, Am. Nat., v, 187 1, 169). 



The only definite record of this species for Nebraska is ' 'reported 

 by I. S. Trostler, who saw three that were killed on the Missouri 

 River at Omaha, Nov. 9, 1895" (Rev. Bds. Neb., p. 30). From 



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