ANNOTATED LIST OF THE BIRDS 121 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. Uncommon transient, rarely alight- 

 ing. October 7, 1917 (Johnson and Rogers) to December 6, 

 1919 (Bowdish); March 18, 1911 (Griscom) to May 3, 1914 

 (Griscom). 



BRANT (Branta bernicla glaucogastra) Fig. 7. 

 The Brant is not hard to distinguish from its bigger 

 relative. The wing beats are more rapid, the honking is less 

 sonorous, and it is generally darker forward, with more white 

 on the tail coverts. While a common bird on Long Island, it 

 is more marine than the Canada Goose, and alights in numbers 

 in comparatively few places. Fisher records it as accidental 

 at Ossining, and Mr. Courtenay Brandreth informs me that 

 another was shot there in November, 1920. These are our 

 only inland records. 



Long Island. Common transient, uncommon in winter. 



February 15 to May 28; (September 29) October 26 to January 1. 



ORIENT. Common winter visitant at Gardiner's Island; 



rare and irregular at Orient. November 25, 1912 to April 13, 



1919. 



MASTIC. Uncommon. 



LONG BEACH. Uncommon transient, occasionally winter- 

 ing, October 26, 1919 (Janvrin) to May 18, 1913 (Hix); 

 earliest spring arrival February 12, 1920 (Bicknell); casual in 

 the fall as early as September 20, 1921 (Bicknell) and October 

 12, 1917 (Bicknell). 



BLACK BRANT (Branta nigricans) 



An accidental visitant from the far west. There are three 

 records for Long Island; Islip, 1840, Babylon, spring of 1889, 

 and near Babylon, March 31, 1908 (Herrick, Auk, 1908, p. 

 473), the last apparently overlooked by Eaton. 



BARNACLE GOOSE (Branta leucopsis) 



An accidental visitant from Europe. There are two 

 records for Long Island; Jamaica Bay, about October 20, 

 1876 and Fire Island, October 12 to 16, 1919. (See Forest 

 and Stream, March 1920.) 



