612 APPENDIX. 



GREATER SNOW GOOSE (Chen hypcrhorcus nivalis). See page 173. 



Maine Records. 

 On April 4, 1913, upwards of thirty Snow Geese were 

 seen at Pine Point, Scarboro, by Mr. I. W. Pillsbnry and 

 others. The following day several smaller flocks were reported 

 in different parts of Casco Bay. From one of these flocks 

 four birds were taken, at Great Chebeague Island. One bird, 

 Heron Island, Phippsburg, April 7, 1889 (Batchelder, Auk, 

 1890, p. 284). One bird. Back River, Georgetown, April 25, 

 1903 (Spinney, Jour. Me. Orn. Soc, 1904, p. 69). One bird, 

 Lubec, April 30, 1906 (Clark, Jour. Me. Orn. Soc, 1906, 

 p. 48). A flock of about two hundred on the ice of Long- 

 Pond between Bridgton and Harrison, April 13, 1908, and 

 a similar flock on Sebago Lake on the following day ^ (Mead, 

 Jour. Me. Orn. Soc, 1908, p. 59). 



BLUE GOOSE {Chen cocrulescens). See page 174. 



An adult female Blue Goose was taken at Dyer's Island, 

 R. I., by Mr. Sinclair Tucker on November 9, 1912. This 

 is the second record for Rhode Island, and the fourth for 

 New England. The skin is in the collection of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History.^ 



WHISTLING SWAN {Olor columbianus) . See page 199. 



A Whistling Swan was shot at Webb's Pond, Ellsworth, 

 Me., in March, 1908, by Mr. Hamlin Kingman.'^ On Novem- 

 ber 21, 1914, two Swans were seen circling over Oldham Pond, 

 Pembroke, Mass. They were seen later at Silver Lake.^ These 

 probably were whistling swans, but many recent reports of 

 swans seen near Boston followed soon after the escape of some 

 European mute swans from the Boston park system. 



KING RAIL {Rallus elegans). See page 204. 



A specimen was noted on August 14, 1902, at Amesbury.^ 

 A specimen in the collection of the Boston Society of Natural 



» Norton, Arthur H.: Auk, 1913, p. 575-57G. * Phillips, John C: Auk, 1915, p. .367. 



2 Brooks, W. Sprague: Auk, 1915, p. 226. s Allen, Glover M.: Auk, 1913, p. 23. 



3 Knight, Ora Willis: Auk, 1910, p. 78. 



