976 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUKVEY. [Yol.Y. 



1876, " Upper Des Moines." Brant and Geese. < Bod and Gun, vii, Feb. 12, 1876, p. 



306. 

 Habits, nesting, etc., in Iowa. 



1877, Abbott, C. C. Leaves from my Note-Book, The Wood Duck [Aix sponsa] and 



Her Young, < The Country, i, Dec, 29, 1877, p. 115, 

 Fledglings carried down from nest to water on shoulders of the mother. 

 1877, Akhurst, J, Capture of the Egyptian Goose [Chenalopex ajgyptiacus] on Long 

 Island, < Bull. Nutt. Ornitli. Club, ii, No. 2, Apr, , 1877, p, 52, 



1877, Anon, The Canada Goose [Bernicla canadensis], <^ Forest and Stream, viii 

 Feb, 15, 1877, p, 17, 



1877, Anon, A Proof of Instinct. < Forest and Stream, viii. Mar, 22, 1877, p, 96, 



WUd Geese supporting a wounded one in the air. 

 1877. Anon. Tame Wild Geese. < Forest and Stream, viii, June 7, 1877, p. 280, 



Reprinted from St. Louis "Kepublican." 

 1877, Anon. Shells in red head duck's [Fuligula americana] craw. <^Forest and 



Stream, ix, Dec. 20, 1877, p. 380. See pp. 266, 285, 327. 

 1877, Anon, What our Ducks Eat [on North Atlantic coast], <^ Forest and Stream, 

 ix, Nov. 29, 1877, p. 327. See p. 380. 



1877, Anon, What Red Head Ducks [Fuligula americana] Eat [Ruppia maritima, 

 etc, ]. < Forest and Stream, ix, pp. 266, 285, See pp, 327, 380, 



1877, "Audubon," Domesticated Wild Geese [Bernicla canadensis], <C, Forest and 



Stream, viii. Mar, 1, 1877, p, 50, See pp, 96, 177. 

 1877. COUES, E. Note on the Cinnamon Teal (Querquedula cyauoptera [in Colorado]). 



< Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, ii, No. 2, Apr., 1877, p. 51. 

 1877. [CouES, E. ] Birds. < The Mirror (Baltimore, Md. ), Dec. , 1877. 



Notices of certain North American Anatidce, from "Birds of the Northwest." 



1877, "G.P," Habits of Domesticated Wild Geese [Bernicla canadensis], <^ Forest 



and Stream, viii, March 22, 1877, p, 96, See pp. 50, 177, 

 1877. GUENEY, J, H, Note on the Polish Swan [Cygnus immutabilis], <P, Z. S., 



June 19, 1877, pp. 579, 580. 



1877. GURNEY, J. H., Jr. [Letter on the Trachete of certain Anatida?.] <^Ibis, 4th 

 ser., i, July, 1877, pp. 395, 393. 



1877. "H. H." Domestication of the Canada Goose [Bernicla canadensis]. <:^Forest 

 and Stream, Yiii, April 23, 1877, p. 177. See pp. 50, 96, 



1877. Lawrence, G. N, Occurrence of the Barnacle Goose (Bernicla leucopsis) ■ on 

 Long Island, N, Y, < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, ii. No. 1, Jan., 1877, p. 18. 

 Coveriug a letter from J. E. Kendall. Including note hy E. Deane. 



1877, Le Baron, J, F. Habits of the Whistler [Bucephala americana], < Am. Nat., 

 xi. No. 1, Jan., 1877, p. 44, 45. 



1877. "P." Brant [Bernicla hrenta] in Texas. < Forest and Stream, ix, Dec. 27, 1877, 

 p. 397. 



1877. "Recapper," [T, S. Abbott,] The Dusky Duck [Anas obscura], < T/ie 

 Country, i, Dec, 8, 1877, p, 74. 



1877. "R, H," Domesticated Wild Geese [Bernicla canadensis] Breeding, <^Forest 

 and Stream, viii, July 5, 1877, p. 360. 



1877. Rowley, G. D. Somateria [Camptoliemus] labradoria (J, F, Gmelin), (The 

 Pied Duck,) < Eoivl. Orv. Misc.,n, pt,,vi, Jan,, 1877, pp, 205-224, pi, Iv, and 

 five others, not numbered, 



A very complete monograph of this rare and apparently moribund species, including a list 

 of 33 known specimens. PI. 55 figures the bird, both sexes, in colors. The other five plates 

 show sternums,' heads, and feet of various Eiders. 



