94 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Rare transient or winter visitant. 



Gunners report them as casual along the coast. Formerly they were 

 regularly abundant in Delaware Bay from the middle of February 

 until March, and along both shores below Reedy Island, 1 and some 

 are still to be found there, according to Mr. Hand, who tells me they 

 come up regularly to Salem Cove to feed. Dr. W. L. Abbott took two 

 on the bay March 5th, 1879, and January, 1882, and according to C. 

 S. Wescott, 2 they were common in the latter season just below Bombay 

 Hook, though usually only seen there in spring. Mr. Julian Bur- 

 roughs 3 reports a large flock fogbound on the Hudson, off Gordon's 

 Point, January, 1909. 



Mr. Fowler 4 reports several at Edgewater Park, on the Delaware, in 

 the winter of 1904-5. 



169.1 Chen caerulescens (Linnaeus). 

 Blue Goose. 



Adults.* "Length, 27-30. Wing, 15-17. Head and upper neck, white (or 

 with rusty stains) ; upper surface, lower neck, breast and sides, plumbeous ; 

 abdomen and crissum, white ; wing-coverts, light gray. 



Young in first winter. Similar, but head and neck plumbeous, except the 

 chin. 



Turnbull (1869) says: "In some seasons not uncommon on the 

 Delaware and Atlantic coast." Normally a bird of the interior. 



171a Anser albifrons gambeli (Hartlaub). 

 White-fronted Goose. 



Adults. Length, 27-30. Wing, 14.50-17.50. Grayish-brown above, as well 

 as head, neck, breast and sides, with white around the base of the bill and tail 

 tipped with white; abdomen, white, with black feathers scattered here and 

 there irregularly. 



Young in first winter. Similar, but no black feathers below, and white at 

 base of bill dusky. 



Rare winter visitant. 



1 Wilson, Amer. Orn., VIII., p. 70. 



2 Forest and Stream, January 5th, 1882, p. 447. 



3 Forest and Stream, January 23d, 1909, p. 133. 



4 Cassinia, 1905, p. 72. 



