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Genus CHEN Boie. 

 10. (169.1). Chen cierulescens (Linn.}. Blue Goose. 



This species will probably be taken within our limits at some 

 future date. A specimen was shot at Lake Umbagog, New 

 Hampshire, October 2, 1896, by Mr. Charles Douglass. (Cf. 

 , The Auk, April, 1897, p. 207). 



(ieuus ANSER Brisson. 



11. (171a). Auser albifrons gambeli (Hartl.). American 

 White-fronted Goose. 



Given by Mr. Boardman as accidental at Grand Menan, New 

 Brunswick. 



Subfamily CYGNINJE. Swans. 

 Genus OLOR Wagler. 



12. (180). Olor columbianus (Ord). Whistling Swan. 



A specimen of this bird is said to have been taken near the 

 mouth of the Kennebec River, at Brick Island, November, 1881. by 

 William Williams, and it is recorded by Smith in Forest and 

 Stream, Vol. 20, p. 125. While the identification of this specimen 

 was probably correct, still the fact that it was neither preserved 

 nor seen by an Ornithologist who was acquainted with the species 

 in question, makes the record open to some slight doubt, and con- 

 sequently the species is cited here. 



Family ARDEID^E Herons, Bitterns, etc. 



Genus ARDEA Linnaeus. 

 Subgenus GARZETTA Katip. 



13. (197). Ardea candidissima Gmel. Snowy Heron. 

 Taken by Mr. Boardmau at Grand Menan, where it was an 



accidental visitor from the south. 



Family RALLID^E. Rails, Gallinules, and Coots. 



Genus PORZANA Vieillot. 

 Subgenus CRECISCUS Cabanis. 



14. (216). Porzaua jarnaicensis (Gmel.). Black Rail. 



