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840. Branta canadensis hutchinsi, HUTCHIN'S GOOSE. 

 Rather irregular rare spring and autumn visitant, but more com- 

 mon formerly. (See Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, II, 1877, 4 6 ; 

 Brewster, ibid., VIII, 1883, 163.) 



85. Branta bernicla. BRANT. Not uncommon spring and 

 autumn migrant. 



[86.] Branta leucopsis. BARNACLE GOOSE. Accidental. 

 The only Massachusetts record is North Chatham, Nov. i, 1885 

 (F. H,. C\arpenter\, Orn. and Ool., XI, 1886, 16). The specimen 

 was mounted by Mr. N. Vickary of Lynn, who also informed me 

 of its capture in a letter. 



There are numerous extralimital records for eastern North 

 America, it having been taken in Southern Labrador, Maine, 

 Vermont, on Long Island, and in North Carolina. 



87. Branta nigricans. BLACK BRANT. Rare or accidental, 

 with the preceding. Though commonly attributed to the State 

 there are thus far few positive records of its capture here. (See 

 Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII, 1875, 447; Cory, 

 Auk, I, 1884, 96.) 



[88.] Olor columbianus. WHISTLING SWAN. In early times 

 (first half of the seventeenth century) this species was not uncom- 

 mon (see Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, I, 1876, 58), but at present 

 it can be regarded only as a rare and irregular, perhaps acciden- 

 tal, visitor. Recent authentic records are Nantucket, March 4, 

 1878 (Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, III, 1878, 198); Nahant, 

 about 1865 (Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XX, 1879, 274); 

 Somerset, Oct. 16. 1880 (Slade, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, 1881, 

 123). There are also recent records for New Hampshire (Sea- 

 brook, Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, IV, 1879, 125), Connecti- 

 cut (Branford Harbor, Merriam, Rev. Bds. Conn., 1877, 120), and 

 Rhode Island (Dexter, Forest and Stream, XIII, 1879, 848). 

 Also St. John, N. B. (Gilbert, Canad. Nat. and Sportsman, II, 

 1882, 144). 



[89.] Plegadis autumnal is. GLOSSY IBIS. Accidental. Sev- 

 eral early records of its occurrence, but only three recent ones : 

 Nantucket, Sept. 1869 (Allen, Am. Nat., Ill, 1870, 637); Cape 

 Cod (Orleans and Chatham), three specimens, about May 5, 1878 

 1886.] 



