48 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ANSERES. 



ANATIDAE. 



Birds of Europe, 1871-81, vol. 6, pi. [417], lower fig. Egg, See- 

 bohm, 1896, p. 30, pi. 11, fig. 3. 



Anser hyperboreus Pall., Spicilegia zool., 1769, fasc. 6, p. 25. 



"in TERRIS BOREALIBUS, ad OrIENTEM 130°. LONGITUDINIS, 



sivE CIRCA Lenam et Ianam fluvios." 

 Salt and fresh water; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Rare fall migrant. Oct. 2-Dec. 



N. H. — Rare fall migrant: Lake Umbagog, Oct. 2, 1896; Sea- 

 brook. 



Vt. — Rare fall migrant: Lake Champlain; ? Lunenburg; St. 

 Johnsbury. 



Mass. — Rare migrant. April 13, 1908, Townsend; (? July) 

 Oct. 15-Xov. 21. 



R. L — Rare fall migrant. Sept. 3-Oct. 16. 



CoNX. — Rare fall migrant: Saybrook, fall, 1875; Stratford, 

 Oct. 5, 1842. 



91. Chen hyperborea nivalis (Forster) Ridgway. 



Greater snow goose; Wavy. 



Ridgway, Manual Xo. Amer. birds, 1887, p. 115. 



Anas nivalis Forster, Phil, trans, roy. soc. London, 1772, vol. 

 62, p. 413. "Severn River," Hudson Bay. 



Anser hyperboreus Gmel. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1843, 

 vol. 6, p. 212, pi. 381, fig. 1. 



Salt and fresh water; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Now an accidental visitor: Georgetown, April 25, 1903; 

 mouth of Kennebec River, April 7, 1890; Lubec, April 30, 1906. 



Mass. — X'ow an accidental visitor: near Springfield (Morris); 

 various doubtful records. 



Conn. — Now an accidental visitor: Stratford, three wintered, 

 1867-68 (fide Averill); also listed by Linsley (1843), but may 

 have been C. hyperborea. 



