ANNOTATED LIST. 4 1 



(57) 167. Erismatura jamaicensis (Gmel.). Ruddy 

 Duck. Broad-bill. Booby. — A not uncommon migrant along 

 the coast and to the inland ponds, breeding locally. Lawton 

 calls this bird the " most abundant of the migratory ducks, of 

 which large numbers are shot at Easton's Pond every season." 1 

 In a note in "The Auk" by Mr. G. S. Miller, Jr., he speaks of 

 a number of specimens in adult plumage, being taken during 

 July at Sakonnet Point.^ Mr. Newton Dexter writes that two 

 broods were hatched in Long Pond, Sakonnet, in 1895 ; when 

 about half grown the young disappeared.* 



March and October. July. 



(58) 169.1. Chen caerulescens (Linn.). Blue Goose. A 

 young bird was taken at Charlestown Beach on October 16, 1892, 

 by Mr. F. L. Glezen and identified by Mr. Newton Dexter.^ Mr. 

 Dexter writes that he presented two, killed near Newport, to the 

 Brown University collection. 



(59) 169. Chen hyperborea (Pall.).? Lesser Snow Goose. 

 Goose. Snow Goose. Mexican Goose. — A rare and irregular 

 winter visitant. Whether the birds recorded are of this race or 

 Chen hyperborea nivalis cannot be determined. 



(October) to (April). 



(60) 172. Branta canadensis (Linn.). Canada Goose. 

 Wild Goose. — A common migrant. Three or four flocks com- 

 prising some two hundred birds were observed at Newport, 

 bound south on December 17, 1898.* 



March 13 to April 29. October. 



(61) 173. Branta bernicla (Linn.). Brant. Brant Goose. 

 — A not uncommon migrant, and rare winter visitant. Lawton 



' Lawton's List, p. l6. 



""Auk, Vol. XVIII, No. I, p. 118. 



" F. & S. Vol. XVII, No. II, p. 211. 



2 F. & S., Vol. XXX, No. 3, p. 48, and Providence Journal, Jan. 16, 1893. 



Prov. Journal, Jan, 25th, 1893. 

 « F. & S. Vol. XV, No. 20, p. 389. 



