164 Henshaw, Emperor Goose in Ha-wait. LApr 



A recent author on ornithological subjects arranges a list of 

 birds into two classes, one, like the sparrows, that annually rear 

 two broods in the season ; and one, including Bob-white, never 

 rearing but one. This little episode does not prove him incorrect 

 and yet there are points circumstantially convincing to my mind 

 that he was mistaken. 



It was just one month after the events narrated above. Octo- 

 ber had come : the Nimrods had put on cap and boots and the 

 fusillade had already begun, but not yet near. I was reading 

 quietly in my chair when I was startled by the heavy report of a 

 gun, fired evidently only a short distance away from my yard but 

 the scene invisible by intervening foliage. A little later I saw go 

 marching proudly by, a boy with a big gun in one hand and a big 

 male Bob-white in the other, great triumph sparkling in his eyes. 

 He probably feasted that night. Menu — Quail on toast, seasoned 

 with a mayonnaise of glory. 



■i OCCURRENCE OF THE EMPEROR GOOSE 

 IN HAWAII. 



BY H. W. HENSHAW. 



The present season of 1902-03 bids fair to be a notable one as 

 regards the occurrence of North American birds in the Hawaiian 

 Islands. About the middle of October there occurred a heavy 

 northeast trade storm, and, coincident with it, an unusually heavy 

 flight of ducks and geese reached the island of Hawaii. Flocks of 

 the former, consisting of scores, and even of hundreds, were 

 reported from various points on the windward side. The ducks 

 were mostly of two species, viz., the Pintail {Dafila acuta), and 

 the Shoveller {Spatula clypeata). Although these two species are 

 of annual occurrence upon all the islands of the group, where they 

 winter, they have not been known in such abundance upon the 

 island of Hawaii, not a favorite with ducks, for many years. 



Among the flocks were doubtless not a few individuals of species 



