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has more recent information on the subject, it would be as well to publish 

 it. The onlj' known breeding places on the East Atlantic are the West- 

 mann Isles in Iceland, the Flannans, St. Kilda group and N. Rona in 

 Scotland and islets off the Kerry and Mayo coast in Ireland. — F. C. R. 

 JouRDAiN, Appletoyi Rectory, Abingdon, Berkshire, England. 



Barrow's Golden-eye at Wareham, Mass. — I am indebted to Mr. 

 C. A. Robbins for the freshly-prepared skins of a female Barrow's Golden- 

 eye and for permission to report that the bird was killed in Wareham by 

 L. P. Hacket, a local gunner, on November 27, 1915. Mr. Robbins states 

 further that " it was shot from a stone breakwater within one hundred 

 yards of the shore and at a point almost exactly at the head of the broadest 

 expanse of Buzzard's Bay. Although other Golden-eyes were feeding or 

 in flight near by, this bird was accompanied by but one other (a female or 

 young male)." On comparing the specimen with series of skins in my 

 collection I find that with respect to every essential characteristic of both 

 form and coloring it is a perfectly typical representation of C. islandica. 

 The interest attaching to its occurrence is enhanced by the fact that so few 

 birds of its sex and species have heretofore been reported from anywhere 

 along the Massachusetts Coast. No doubt they visit this oftener than we 

 realize, being overlooked because so closely similar to female Whistlers. — 

 William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



Lesser Snow Goose {Chen h. hyperboreus) in Massachusetts. — On 



December 7, 1915, a bird of this species was shot as it swung in alone to 

 some decoys at Eagle Hill, Ipswich, Mass., by Mr. Wm. O. Thrasher of 

 Peabody. He gave it to Mr. Charles E. Clarke of Tuft's College, Mass. 

 The latter had gone to Ipswich to study the birds, and had recognized this 

 rare species hung up outside the shooting shack. Mr. Clarke kindly gave 

 the bii'd to me for my collection and for record. It proved to be a male in 

 good condition but not fat. Its plumage indicated a bird of the previous 

 year. The feathers about the head and breast were tinged yellowish brown 

 as if stained with iron rust. 



Definite records of this goose in Massachusetts are few, although it is 

 probable that the majority of the indefinite records of Snow Geese belong 

 to this species and not to Chen h. nivalis. The only previous records for 

 Essex County of specimens of the Lesser Snow Goose are: one, now in the 

 Peabody Academy, taken at Lynn Beach in 1866, one taken by B. S. 

 Damsell at Amesbury in 1888, and one, now in the collection of Mr. 

 William Brewster, taken at Ipswich on October 26, 1896. — Charles W. 

 TowNSEND, M.D., Boston, Mass. 



Blue Goose {Chen caerulescens) in Maine. — Last winter when visiting 

 some of the islands of Penobscot Bay, Knox County, Maine, in quest of sea 

 birds, I saw and examined a mounted specimen of the Blue Goose in pos- 

 session of Mr. Walter Conley of Isle Au Haut. 



