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entitled to the name there given to it. In a letter received from Mrs. 

 Eckstorm she informs me that the specimen under consideration is not a 

 Brown Pelican but is some South American species of Pelican, and that it is 

 most certainly an escaped bird, being one of three kept in captivity by a 

 summer resident at Castine. 



Family FREGATID^. Man-o'-War Birds. 

 Genus FREGATA Brisson. 

 128. Fregata aqnila Linn. Man-o'-War Bird. 



Mr. Smith cites the species as a straggler past the coast of Maine to Nova 

 Scotia, where it has been taken, but there is no evidence to show that the 

 individual under consideration was ever within nearer distance to the Maine 

 coast than the point where it was taken miles away. (Smith, Forest & 

 Stream, 20, p. 185). Steam's "New England Bird Life" p. 342, states : — " Mr. 

 Purdie's manuscript informs us that a specimen was taken but not preserved, 

 about twelve years ago at Boothbay, Maine." If the record had stated that 

 this specimen had been seen and examined, either by Mr. Purdie or some 

 other collector well acquainted with the species, there would have been good 

 grounds for considering it a bird of the State, but in absence of statement as 

 to who identified the bird and the further fact that it was not preserved, ren- 

 der it desirable to consider the occurrence in a hypothetical light at present. 



Family ANATID^E. Ducks, Geese, and Swans. 

 Genus CHEN Boie. 

 169. 1. Chen aerulescens. (Linn.). Blue Goose. 

 A specimen was shot at Lake Umbagog, New Hampshire, October 2, 1896, 

 by Mr. Chas. Douglass. (Brewster, Auk 1897, p. 207). This is sufficiently 

 near to Maine to render its occurrence here in the future a possibility. 



Genus ANSER. Brisson. 

 171a. Aiiser albifrons gamheli (\la,vi\.^. American White- 

 fronted Goose. 



Given by Mr. Boardman as accidental at Grand Menan, New Brunswick, 

 but the species is not yet known from Maine. 



Subfamily CYGNIN^. Swans. 

 Genus OLOR Wagler. 

 180. Olor columhiamis (Ord). Whistling Swan. 



A specimen is said to have been taken near the mouth of the Kennebec 

 River at Brick Island, November, 1881, by William Williams, (Smith, Forest 



