6. //. Mi n ill III — liii'ils iif' (\iniu<-tirii(. |'j<.( 



eoiiiiiioii on suit wiitiT. lu'iiciiiis into A|.iil (Apiil 17, I s7... irmlr 

 adult sliot, Saoi')- 



259. MergUS serrator Linn.". Ite.l-l.rcasl.d McrKansor. 



A conmion migrant, winliTino- on tlic Sound. (':i|.t:iin Hrooks 

 writes mo tliat tlioy are " {ilenty during winter and s|.iino- '\il.ont 

 Faulkner's Island, C'oini. Also found on fresli w;i1er. IJeniains into 

 A]>ril (April 14, ls76, Osborne). 



260. MergUS CUCUUatuS Linn/'. Hooded ilersansor. 



A winter resident ; not ooniinon. Linsley obtained two specimens 

 from a fresh water pond near Stratford, Conn., and Captain IJrooks 

 lias one, killed at Cuilford, Conn., on salt water. Mr. W. W. Coc 

 has taken it during the migrations, and I saw one in November, 

 1875. Dr. Wood has taken it near p]ast Wimlsor, but finds it rarely. 

 Mr. Sage writes me that one was killed near Middletown, Conn., 

 March 6th, 1876. 



Family, SULID^. 



261. Sula bassana Liime. Common (Tannet; Solon Goose. 



A rare winter visitant. Captain Brooks Avrites me from Faulk- 

 ner's Island, that he has "only seen two specimens," one of which is 

 now in his collection: "It was killed at Guilford, Conn., in the 

 spring, about ten years ago." liinsley took it at Stratford, Conn., 

 and, concerning its gastronomic ])roclivities, I'emarks: "The true 

 Solon Goose killed here, which I presented to the Yale Nntiind His- 

 tory Society,, had in its stomach a bird, and in the stoinacli of the 

 latter was also a bird — destruction on destruction. Mr. \\. Silliman, 

 Jr., and Dr. Whelpley, who oi)ened the stomacii, obser\ cd tliis fad, 

 as the former gentleman informed me. It was ]»reviously sujiposed 

 this bird lived wholly on fishes."* (Tiraud saw a few specimens, 

 killed about Long Island and in the vicinity of New York City.f 

 Mr. Kol)ert Morris tells me that he saw an adult s])ecimen, shot otl' 

 Branford late in the fall of 1872 or 187.". There is also, in a res- 

 taurant in New Haven, a mounted e.xanijile of the yoimg of the Solon 

 Goose, killed near here a few years ago. 



* Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts. vol. .\liv. Xo. 2. p. 271, April, ISi::. 

 f Giraud's Birds of Lonpr Island, p. .'i-ir), 1841. 

 Trans. Conn. Acad., Yoi/. IV. H Aro. 



