212 Dalgleish on North American Birds in Eiirope. 



XLVIII. Cygnus buccinator, Richardson. Trumpeter Swan. 

 Great Britain. 1. Five seen, four shot, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Hele, 

 Notes about Aldeburgh, p. 147. (Harting, Hand-book Br. B., p. 155.) 

 One of these specimens has been examined by Mr. J. H. Gurney. 27 

 Oct., 1866. 



[Cygnus americanus, Sharpless. American Swan.] 

 Great Britain. 1. One, obtained by Macgillivray, from a poulterer's 

 shop in Edinburgh. Macgillivray, Br. B., IV, p. 682. This specimen is 

 now probably in the Brit. Mus., where there is one labelled " Edinburgh," 

 Feb., 1841. Professor Newton informs me that he considers this oc- 

 currence a somewhat doubtful one, as Macgillivray seems, in identifying 

 the specimen, " to have relied entirely on some anatomical characters which 

 experience has shown to be variable." 



XLIX. Anser albatus, Cassin. Cassin's Snow Goose. 

 Great Britain. 1. Two, Lake of Tacumshane, County Wexford. 

 Saunders, P. Z. S., March, 1872, where the locality is misstated. 

 (Dresser, B. of E., pt. 19.) Nov., 1871. 



2. One, Wexford Harbor. Dresser, B. of E., 1. c. ? 



3. One shot, and another trapped alive out of a flock of seven, Ter- 

 moncarra, Barony of Erris, Wexford. Harting, Zool., 1878, pp.419, 453. 

 Oct., 1877. 



[Anser canadensis, Boie. Canada Goose. 

 Obs. — The occurrences of this species in Great Britain are so numer- 

 ous, and its presence on private waters so common, that the former can 

 only be considered as those of birds which have wandered from the latter. 

 The species was introduced, according to Willoughby, upwards of two hun- 

 dred years ago into England. Professor Newton, of Cambridge, while 

 admitting the possibility of examples having crossed the Atlantic, has 

 informed me that he has never met with any plausible evidence that such 

 is the case. A specimen was shot on the island of Stromo, one of the 

 Faroes, on 4th Oct., 1866, which, although it may have crossed from 

 America, is just as likely to have strayed from some piece of water in 

 Great Britain. Its occurrence is noted to me by Herr H. Miiller of 

 Faroe, in lit., 14 Mar., 1879.] 



L. Anas americana, Gmelin. American Widgeon. 

 Great Britain. 1. One, Leadenhall Market. Blyth, Naturalist, III, 

 p. 417. Yarrell, Br. B., Ill, p. 293. "Winter, 1837-38. 



2. One, Burn of Boyndie, Banffshire. Edwards, Zobl., 1860, p. 6970. 

 Jan., 1841. 



3. One, Strangford Lough, Ireland. Thompson, Nat. Hist. Ire., 

 Bu-ds, HI, p. 112. (Harting, Hand-book Br. B., p. 159.) Feb., 1844. 



