Vol. XIV 
1897 General Notes. 207 
in the Columbia, a little below the mouth of the Willamette, March 28, 
1806; and the description in full is found in Codex Clark Q_ 81-83, 
Codex Lewis K 10. This is unmistakable. The bird is smaller than the 
duckinmallard (Azas boscas); head and neck purplish-black; belly and 
breast white; flanks of a pale dove-color with fine black specks; beak re- 
markably wide; . . . “a narrow stripe of white garnishes the base of the 
upper chop; this is succeeded by a pale sky-blue color, occupying about 
an inch, which again is succeeded by a transverse stripe of white, and the 
extremity is a fine black,” etc. This is obviously diagnostic of Fudligula 
collaris, even though no mention is made of the orange-brown collar, 
which was either overlooked, or not developed in the specimen handled. 
I have of course set forth the case in my work as cited, but this note will 
serve to throw it into the current of ornithological literature, to which 
the celebrated History does not distinctively pertain. No question of 
nomenclature is raised; the matter is simply historical. — ELLIOTT 
Covues, Washington, D. C. 
Dafilula, a New Subgenus.— Type Querguedula eatoni Sharpe, Ibis, 
1875, p. 328, Kerguelen Island. —ELiiotr Coves, Washington, D. C. 
The Lesser Snow Goose in New England. —I have lately added to my 
collection three New England specimens of the Lesser Snow Goose 
(Chen hyperborea); one taken at Toddy Lake, Maine, October 4, 1893, by 
Mr. Alvah G. Dorr of Bucksport, Maine, another at Lake Umbagog, Maine, 
October 2, 1896, by Mr. Charles Douglass, the third at Ipswich, Mass- 
achusetts, October 26, 1896, by a local sportsman who sent the bird in the 
flesh to Mr. M. Abbott Frazar of Boston. The specimen first named was 
not sexed; the other two birds were males. All three are young in fresh 
antumnal plumage and all are prefectly typical examples of hyferborea 
which, evidently, is of much commoner occurrence in New England than 
the large form zzvalzs. 
The Umbagog specimen was accompanied by a young Blue Goose 
(Chen cerulescens) which was also killed, both birds coming into my 
possession less than an hour after their death. — WILLIAM BREWSTER, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Branta bernicla glaucogastra.— While I was in London in 1884 I 
examined with Mr. Seebohm his collection of Brant Geese, and was 
favorably impressed with his view that there are three recognizable forms, 
two Of which occur in North America, though neither of these is the 
ordinary Brant of Europe. We have the two extremes of the White- 
bellied and Black-bellied, between which typical B. dernzcla is interme- 
diate. It is probably because we have only compared these extremes that 
we have found B. zzgricans so decidedly different from what we call B. 
bernicla. The stock is one of the most thoroughly circumpolar of all 
birds, perhaps more decidedly hyperborean than any other excepting 
