C. II. Me)'vi((ni — Iiir<l.-< iif ('(iiiiKftliiit, 1 j 1 



tiTiu' alU'rwanls, howi'vcr, on auaiii iiUH'tiiiL;- tin- I )oct()r, t he Imiitcr 

 said that, a few clays befoiv, lu' luaid tlu- Swans comin.^ and nislicl 

 into tlie bouse for his gun, but l»t'l()rc lie ivtunu-d with it they lia<l 

 l)assc(l over, between tlio liousi" and barn, that he had a u'ood si<,dil 

 at them and was confident that tlu-y \\<.-yv Truni|ittcrs. rn.c.f is 

 wanting to shoAV tliat some of the birds inentioncil lunhr the hist 

 s])ecies w'ere not really Cygniis buccinator. 



230. Anser hyperboreus Pallas. Snow Goose. 



A rai-e winter visitor. Linsley records seven s^iecimens liom 

 Stratford, Conn. iMr. W. W. Coe, of Forthind, has a magnificent 

 si)ecinien of this species in his cabinet. It was killed on the coast 

 near Saybrook, Conn., in the fall of 1875. 



Note. — The Barnacle Goose [Branta leiicopsis Boie), a rare acci- 

 dental visitor to our coast, from Europe, is given by Linsley from 

 Stonington, Conn., but on insufficient evidence. Stragglers liave 

 been taken from South Carolina to Hudson's Bay, and a fine s]>eci- 

 men of this Goose was killed on Long Island, N. Y., in October, 

 1 87(3 (recorded by Mr. Law^rence),* hence it may occur as a rare 

 accidental straggler. 



231. Branta bernicla (Linne) Scop. Brant Goose; Black Brant. 



A tolerably common spring and autumn migrant, sometimes re- 

 maining through the winter. Linsley said : " The Brant is common 

 here. [Stratford, Conn.] in winter" (p. 269). Captain Brooks writes 

 me that they are " not common" at Faulkner's Island, where he has 

 " only taken one." Mr. Grinnell informs me that two s})ecimens of 

 this species were killed off Stratford Light, Conn., last spring (1877). 

 Mr. Osborne also saw three individuals near the mouth of the East 

 Haven River, Conn., April 14th, 187(3. Dr. Wood, of East Windsor 

 Hill, Conn., has a fine specimen in his cabinet. It was shot on tlie 

 Connecticut River, above Hartford, in the spring of 1870. 



This species is first recorded from Ncav England 1)) Thomas 

 Morton, who, in 1632, M-rote : "There are Geese of three sorts, vize, 

 brant Geese, wliich are pide, and wdiite Geese which an' biggei-, and 

 gray Geese, which are as big and bigger then the tame (u-ese of 

 England, Avith black legges, black bills, lieads an<l necks black, the 

 flesh farre more excellent, then the Geese of ICnglan<l, wild or tame, 



* Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, vol. ii, No. 1, p. 18, Jan., 1877. 

 Trans. Conn. Ac.\d., \o\.. TV. 16 Ara., 1877. 



