Arlington, Mass.
1910
Feb. 24 [February 24, 1910]
  Dr. A. M. Tuttle tells me that a mounted specimen
of the Brant [Brandt] Goose, now on exhibition at the Middlesex
Sportsmen's Show in Arlington, has the following interesting history.
In company with half-a-dozen or more birds of its own
kind and about an equal number of Canada Geese it alighted,
during a heavy storm, late autumn (in November, he thinks),
in a cultivated field not far from Robbins Spring Hotel near
the brook and the tracks of the Lowell railroad just to the eastward
of Arlington Heights Station. Some laborers discovering the
birds chased them about and captured two or three of
the Brant but all the Canada Geese to [took] to flight and
escaped. One of the captured Brant was given to a
Mr. Farnon, the owner of the land on which it was
taken. He had the specimen preserved and it is still
in his possession. Dr. Tuttle has examined it and
vouches for the fact that it is a typical Brant.
Brant
taken in
Arlington