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  KEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Cedar 
  Island, 
  Great 
  South 
  bay, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Oct. 
  9, 
  1886. 
  3 
  Juvenal. 
  (Wilson). 
  Dutcher, 
  

  

  L. 
  I. 
  Notes 
  

   Amityville, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Nov. 
  15, 
  1886. 
  (Flock 
  20 
  flying 
  southwest, 
  Chichester). 
  Butcher 
  

   Atlanticville, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Dec. 
  3, 
  1886. 
  (Flock 
  30). 
  (Jackson). 
  Dutcher 
  

   Montauk, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Dec. 
  1886. 
  Dutcher 
  

  

  Cold 
  Spring 
  Harbor, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Dec. 
  7, 
  1886. 
  (2 
  seen). 
  Forest 
  and 
  Stream, 
  Dec. 
  9, 
  1886 
  

   Owego, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Fall 
  of 
  1888. 
  (J. 
  A. 
  Allen). 
  J. 
  A. 
  Loring 
  

   Shelter 
  Island, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Apr. 
  3, 
  1889. 
  d^ 
  • 
  Dutcher 
  

   Gardiners 
  island, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Oct. 
  1889. 
  (2). 
  (Lucas). 
  Dutcher 
  

   Atlanticville, 
  L. 
  I. 
  1890. 
  (2 
  killed, 
  Knoess). 
  Dutcher 
  

   Point 
  Lookout 
  Life 
  Saving 
  Station, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Nov. 
  24,1901. 
  (Several 
  flocks). 
  BraisHn, 
  

  

  P- 
  50 
  

   Rockaway 
  Beach, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Jan. 
  30, 
  1902. 
  (i). 
  Braislin, 
  p. 
  50 
  

   Nyack, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Nov. 
  18, 
  1903. 
  9 
  Immature. 
  Braislin, 
  Auk, 
  21: 
  288 
  

  

  Several 
  other 
  records 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  indefinite 
  occur 
  in 
  the 
  Forest 
  and 
  

   Stream 
  and 
  other 
  publications. 
  It 
  is 
  evident, 
  however, 
  that 
  the 
  Snow 
  

   goose 
  is 
  an 
  uncommon 
  bird 
  in 
  this 
  State, 
  but, 
  unlike 
  most 
  birds 
  which 
  

   breed 
  in 
  the 
  interior 
  of 
  British 
  America 
  or 
  on 
  the 
  Arctic 
  coast, 
  and 
  foUow 
  

   the 
  Mississippi 
  valley 
  during 
  migrations, 
  it 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  more 
  common 
  

   on 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  coast 
  and 
  along 
  the 
  Hudson-Champlain 
  vaUey 
  than 
  in 
  

   western 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  Chen 
  caerulescens 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

   Blue 
  Goose 
  

  

  Plate 
  21 
  

  

  Anas 
  caerulescens 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  10. 
  1758. 
  1:124 
  

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  h 
  e 
  n 
  c 
  aeru 
  le 
  sc 
  e 
  n 
  s 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  169. 
  i 
  

  

  caerules'cens, 
  Lat., 
  bluish 
  

  

  Description. 
  Head 
  and 
  upper 
  neck 
  white 
  ; 
  lower 
  neck, 
  back, 
  scapulars, 
  

   breast 
  and 
  flanks 
  dusky 
  gray, 
  the 
  feathers 
  tipped 
  with 
  grayish 
  white, 
  or 
  

   brownish, 
  giving 
  a 
  somewhat 
  scaly 
  appearance; 
  the 
  dark 
  color 
  fades' 
  to 
  

   whitish 
  on 
  the 
  bell}' 
  and 
  under 
  tail 
  coverts; 
  rump, 
  and 
  greater 
  and 
  lesser 
  

   wing 
  coverts 
  bluish 
  gray; 
  tertials 
  and 
  greater 
  coverts 
  black 
  along 
  their 
  

   centers, 
  growing 
  brownish 
  toward 
  their 
  edges 
  and 
  quite 
  sharply 
  margined 
  

   with 
  whitish; 
  wing 
  feathers 
  dusky 
  toward 
  the 
  tips, 
  their 
  shafts 
  white 
  except 
  

   near 
  the 
  tips 
  ; 
  tail 
  feathers 
  dusky, 
  margined 
  and 
  tipped 
  with 
  whitish 
  ; 
  bill 
  and 
  

   feet 
  flesh 
  color, 
  the 
  "grinnmg 
  recess" 
  of 
  the 
  bill 
  black; 
  iris 
  brown. 
  Like 
  

   other 
  waterfowl 
  which 
  dabble 
  in 
  marshy 
  waters 
  charged 
  with 
  iron, 
  there 
  

  

  