THE COLLECTORS' MONTHLY. 



( 73) 139. Anas carolinensis. 

 Green winged Teal. (612.) 



Head chestnut brown, Forehead and chin 

 blackish. Broad patch from eye to back of head, 

 and speculum, glossy green. Lower neck, sides, 

 and parts of back, finely waved with black and 

 white. Upper wing coverts light brown' Under 

 tail coverts black, with n white patch at each 

 side. Length 14 inches. 



A regular migrant, arriving from the 

 North in September, and frequenting 

 grassy ponds and sloughs, remaining 

 sometimes until late in November. Breeds 

 from the northern U. S. northward. 

 Nest made of weeds, grasses etc., lined 

 with feathers and down, placed on the 

 ground near water. The eggs are pale 

 greenish buff, six or eight, and about 1 % 

 xl% inches. 



(74) 140. Aims discors. 

 Bine winged Teal, (609 ) 



Back, sides and breast dark brown, with more 

 or less pale edgings to feathers, Sides of head, 

 and neck, pale brown, spotted thickly withdusky. 

 A white crescent in front of eye. Upper wing 

 coverts pale blue. Length 1(5 inches. 



A rather common migrant, arriving 

 from the North in September. Usually 

 found in fresh water ponds, where there 

 is a rank growth of weeds or rushes, and 

 rather t vne and easily bagged. Nests 

 irom the northern U. S. northward, lav- 

 ing eight to twelve pale creamy'^eggs 

 about 1 % x 2 inches, in a nest of weeds 

 and grasses lined with feathersjand down 

 and placed on the groundsill the vicinity 

 of water. 



(75) 169. Chen hyperborea. 



Cesser Snow Goose. (591a.) 



Adult pure white. The wings tippedjwithjblaek. 

 Young, with the lower part ofjneck brown, and 

 ;sides of body and upper part of wings ashy. 

 Length 30 inches. 



Of very rare occurancein full orspring. 

 "October 8; 1881, a young bird wasshot 

 at Shinnecock Bay, by C. A. Lane, which 

 he sent me" (Butcher). "April 28th 

 1883, I saw a, flock of ten white headed 



geese, probably young oichen hyperborea 

 (Helme). Nesls on the ground in Arctic 

 countries. Eggs creamy white and about 

 Sy s x2% inches. Nest mada of sticks and 

 grass, lined with down. 



Some of lite Sea Birds of 

 Maine 



(Written for the Collectors' Monthly.) 



Having seen an article in the last 

 number of the Collectors' Monthly from a 

 Maine collector, in which was expressed a 

 desire for something about the collecting 

 of Maine water bird's eggs, I thought I 

 would write, having had some experience 

 in that line. 



On June 8th 1891, 1 left home for some 

 of the Islands of Penobscot Bay, off the 

 coast of Knox County, and arrived there 

 the tenth. The first Island visited was 

 quite a high rocky one, on which Ameri- 

 can Herring Gulls were found in great 

 numbers. As the Island wasapproached 

 they arose in a vast cloud, and the noise 

 of their wings and cries was almost 

 deafening. There must have been thous- 

 ands of them. On landing a great many 

 nests were found, but the larger part of 

 them were empty, only about one in a 

 dozen containing eggs, and the most of 

 them contained only one or two, very few 

 nests were found containing 3 eggs. 



The nests were usually placed on the 

 ground in a slight depression or on a 

 flat rock, but sometimes in the top of a 

 stump and on rare occasions in a small 

 tree, from ten to twenty feet from the 

 ground. They were constructed of grass 

 and weed stalks, leaves and twigs and 

 lined with tine grass and sometimes a 

 few feathers. The eggs varied in color 

 from light olivaceous drab to dark green- 

 ish brown and measured from 1 : 80 x 

 2 :('«5 inches by 2 :0o x 2 :90. They were 

 marked with spots of brown of different 



