50 FAUNA OF XEW EXGLAXD. 



ANSERES. 



AXATID.\E. 



Me. — Common migrant. (Teb. 28) Mar. .5-^Iay ; Oct. 13- 

 Dec. 8. 



N. H., Vt. — Common migrant. Mar. 11-April; Oct.-Dec. 7. 



Mass.^ — Common migrant, formerly .summer resident (said to 

 have bred at Lexington, late April, 1888); may winter rarely on 

 south coast. Mar. 8-June 5; (Aug. 3) Sept. 21-Dec. 30 (Jan. 10; 

 Jan. 31). 



R. I. — Common migrant. Mar. 13-May 7; Sept. 17-Dec. 29. 



Coxx. — Common migrant and less common winter resident. 

 Mar .-May 22; Oct.-winter. 



95. Br.\xta cax.\dexsis HrxcHixsii (Richardson) Coues. 



Hutchins's goose; ? Southern goose. 



Coues, Key to Xo. Amer. birds, ed. 5, 1903, vol. 2, p. 905. 



Anser Imtcliinsii Rich., in Swainson and Rich., Fauna Boreali- 

 Amer., 1831, vol. 2, p. 470. "Melville Pexixsula," Arctic 

 America. Audubon, Ornith. biogr., 1835, vol. 3, p. 226, pi. 277. 



Fresh and salt water; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Accidental migrant: Cape Elizabeth, Nov. 13, 1894; 

 Portland, spring 1899; Rangeley. 



Mass. — Supposed to occur as a migrant. 



Cox'X. — ? Uncommon fall migrant; said to arrive later than 

 B. canadensis and to pass at once south (Merriam, 1877). 



96. Braxta berxicla glaucogastra (C. L. Brehm) Coues. 



Wliite-bellied brant; Blue brant; Brant; May brant. 



Bernicla glaucogaster C. L. Brehm, Handb. d. naturgesch. aller 

 vogel Deutschl., 1831, p. 849. "aus dem hohex Xordex im 



HeRBSTE an die KtJSTEX DER DEUTSCHEN OSTSEE." 



A7iser bermcia Linne. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1843, vol. 6, 

 p. 203, pi. 379. 



Salt water; nests on the ground. 



