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Cedar Island, Great South bay, L. I. Oct. 9, 1886. 3 juvenal. (Wilson). Dutcher, 



L. I. Notes 

 Amityville, L. I. Nov. 15, 1886. (Flock 20 flying southwest, Chichester). Butcher 

 Atlanticville, L. I. Dec. 3, 1886. (Flock 30). (Jackson). Dutcher 

 Montauk, L. I. Dec. 1886. Dutcher 



Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. Dec. 7, 1886. (2 seen). Forest and Stream, Dec. 9, 1886 

 Owego, N. Y. Fall of 1888. (J. A. Allen). J. A. Loring 

 Shelter Island, L. I. Apr. 3, 1889. c3* . Dutcher 

 Gardiners island, L. I. Oct. 1889. (2), (Lucas). Dutcher 

 Atlanticville, L. I. 1890. (2 killed, Knoess). Dutcher 

 Point Lookout Life Saving Station, L. I. Nov. 24, 1901. (Several flocks). Braislin, 



P- 50 

 Rockavvay Beach, L. I. Jan. 30, 1902. (i). Braislin, p. 50 

 Nyack, N. Y. Nov. 18, 1903. 9 Immature. Braislin, Auk, 21: 288 



Several other records more or less indefinite occur in the Forest and 

 Stream and other publications. It is evident, however, that the Snow 

 goose is an uncommon bird in this State, but, unlike most birds which 

 breed in the interior of British America or on the Arctic coast, and follow 

 the Mississippi valley during migrations, it appears to be more common 

 on the Atlantic coast and along the Hudson-Champlain valley than in 

 western New York. 



Chen caerulescens (Linnaeus) 

 Blue Goose 



Plate 21 



Anas caerulescens Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. 1:124 

 Chen caerulescens A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 169. i 



caerules' cens , Lat., bluish 



Description. Head and upper neck white ; lower neck, back, scapulars, 

 breast and flanks dusky gray, the feathers tipped with grayish white, or 

 brownish, giving a somewhat scaly appearance; the dark color fades to 

 whitish on the belly and under tail coverts; rump, and greater and lesser 

 wing coverts bluish gray; tertials and greater coverts black along their 

 centers, growing brownish toward their edges and quite sharply margined 

 with whitish ; wing feathers dusky toward the tips, their shafts white except 

 near the tips; tail feathers dusky, margined and tipped with whitish ; bill and 

 feet flesh dolor, the "grinning recess" of the bill black; iris brown. Like 

 other waterfowl which dabble in marshy waters charged with iron, there 



