18 BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL 



OCCURRENCE OF THE BARNACLE GOOSE {BERNICLA LEU- 

 GOPSIS) ON LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 



Bl GEO. K". LAWRENCE. 



I WAS recently informed, by Mr. Harold Herrick, that a specimen 

 of this species could be seen at the store of Mr. Couway, taxidermist, 

 in Carmine Street, said to have been killed on Long Island. I called 

 there and was shown a nicely mounted example of this Goose in 

 perfect plumage. Mr. Conway said that it was brought to him in 

 the flesh, in good condition, and was eaten by his family ; he spoke 

 very favorably of its edible qualities. 



I learned from him that its possessor was Mr. J. K. Kendall of 

 this city. I had an mterviewwith this gentleman, and requested 

 that he would ascertain all the facts possible as to its capture, and 

 send me the information, I received from him the following letter 

 giving the result of his inqtiiries : — 



New York, November 29, 1876. 

 Dear Sir, — About October 20 I saw a specimen of the Barnacle 

 Goose hanging in a restaurant in this citj, — bought it and had it stuffed. 

 I questioned the proprietor, and learned from him the place where he 

 bought it, — from a produce-dealer near Washington Market. After- 

 wards I interviewed the marketman, and he recollected the bird well, 

 although he had no idea what it was. He told me he bought it from a 

 Long Island farmer, who brought it to the city in his wagon, and who 

 eaid that it was killed by a boy in Jamaica Bay. Unfortunately he did 

 ribt know the farmer, — never saw him before nor since, so I was unable 

 to trace the bird any farther, but I am fully satisfied the story was true. 

 Yours truly, ' 



J. K. Kendall. 



This Is the second instance of this species having been procured 

 on the Atlantic coast ; the first was obtained in Currituck Sound, 

 North Carolina, in 1870, and is recorded iu Vol. Y, p. 10, of the 

 " American Naturalist." * 



♦ In Dr. Brewer's " Catalogue of the Birds of New England " (from Proceed- 

 ings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. XVII, March 3, 1875) he 

 excludes this species from our New England list, and also states that the speci- 

 men recorded by Mr. Lawrence as having been taken in North Carolina was 



