4. BIRD NAMES. [No. 2. 



it is the very species which has been named in honor of Mr. 

 Hutchins." In the " first article," to which Audubon refers, we 

 do not find " Winter Goose," but the other name is introduced 

 as follows : " It is alleged in the state of Maine that a distinct 

 species of Canada Goose resides there, which is said to be much 

 smaller than the one now under your notice, and is described 

 as resembling it in all other particulars. Like the true Canada 

 Goose, it builds a large nest which it lines with its own down ; 

 sometimes it is placed on the sea-shore, at other times by the 

 margin of a fresh-water lake or pond. That species is distin- 

 guished there by the name of flight Goose, and is said to be 

 entirely migratory, whereas the Canada Goose is resident." 

 Linsley says, in Catalogue of the Birds of Connecticut, 1843: 

 " Anser hutchinsii, it is believed, is not unfrequently taken here 

 in the spring, and is called Southern Goose, because it does not 

 winter here." Though this name " Southern Goose " is still re- 

 membered in Connecticut, at Stratford, where Linsley wrote, 

 and at Milford as well, the descriptions of the goose to which it 

 belongs, as given by the different gunners, vary very materially ; 

 they all agree, however, that the name belongs to a variety 

 smaller than the common wild goose, and very rarely, or never, 

 now encountered. 



As these quotations from Audubon and Linsley are both so 

 worded as to leave at least some little room for doubt concerning 

 the local names included, it seems better to give said names just 

 as they appear in the text, without using a more emphatic type. 



Giraud writes (1844): "At the eastern extremity of Long 

 Island this species is not uncommon. At Montauk it is known 

 by the name of MUD GOOSE." 



In an article about common names of wildfowl in Western 

 States (Forest and Stream, May 27, 1886), Mr. J. P. Leach, of 

 Eushville, Illinois, states that the gunners include this with 

 other small geese under the general term " brant," and that 

 this bird is " further distinguished " as GOOSE BRANT. 



In the neighborhood of Morehead, North Carolina, MARSH 

 GOOSE, and on the coast of Texas, PRAIRIE GOOSE. (Compare 

 names of this variety with those of No. 1.) 



