Vol. XXIX1 

 1912 J 



General Notes. 



391 



Dedham Pond, Pembroke 

 Mashpee Pond, Mashpee 

 Snippituit Pond, N. Rochester 

 Abington Meadows 

 Whitman Pond, Weymouth 

 Great Pond, Weymouth . 

 Hingham Harbor 

 Ponkapoag Pond, Canton 

 Indian Head Pond, Pembroke 

 Factory Pond, Hanson 

 Chebacco Pond, Essex 

 Lily Pond, Cohasset 

 Bog in South Hingham 

 Jacob's Pond, Assinippi 

 All other places, about 



Total 



245 



120 



100 



100 



120 



35 



70 



108 



50 



50 



41 



45 



50 



50 



150 



3519 



These figures cannot be actually vouched for, but I believe that they are 

 not far from the actual totals. The figure 150, for " all other places " is 

 probably much too low. Mr. A. B. Gardner of Accord, Mass., who col- 

 lected most of this data for me can be absolutely relied upon. He writes 

 under date of March 7, 1912. " I know that most of these records are 

 correct, and think the rest of them are very close to the right number as I 

 saw someone from most of the places, etc." 



There are about 40 gunning stands included in the records. — J. C. 

 Phillips, Wenham, Mass. 



A Peculiar Plumage of the Canada Goose (Branta canadensis 

 canadensis). — On Nov. 29, 1911, Dr. Rockwell A. Coffin, of Boston, 

 Mass., killed at Clark's Island, near Plymouth, Mass., a male Canada 

 goose, on which the white patch on throat and cheeks was missing. The 

 bird's head was entirely black, with the exception of a few small lighter 

 colored feathers on its throat, which showed only upon a very close exami- 

 nation. " He came in with seven other geese on the 29th of November. 

 The other geese were darker on the side of the head than usual." Possibly 

 this may have been an entire family, in which this peculiarity of plumage 

 had become more or less marked. — Fred. H. Kennard, Boston, Mass. 



Late Record of the Red-backed Sandpiper (Pelidna alpina sakhalina) 

 in Massachusetts. — On Dec. 27, 1911, I noted a small flock of Red- 

 backed Sandpipers {Pelidna alpina sakhalina) at Muskeget Island, Mass. 

 On the 31st I came upon a flock of nine in a driving snowstorm, two 

 of which I secured and found very fat. 



I last noted four of these birds on the 14th of January, 1912. Though 

 the nine previous days had been very severe, covering almost all the shore 



