212 Dalgleish on North American Birds in Europe. 
XLVIII. Cygnus buccinator, Richardson. Trumpeter Swan. 
Great Britain. 1 . Five seen, four shot, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Hele, 
Notes about Aldeburgh, p. 147. (Harting, Hand-book Br. B., p. 155.) 
One of these specimens has been examined by Mr. J. H. Gurney. 27 
Oct., 1866. 
[Cygnus americanus, Sharpless. American Swan.] 
Great Britain. 1 . One, obtained by Macgillivray, from a poulterer’s 
shop in Edinburgh. Macgillivray, Br. B., IV, p. 682. This specimen is 
now probably in the Brit. Mus., where there is one labelled “ Edinburgh.” 
Feb., 1841. Professor Newton informs me that he considers this oc- 
currence a somewhat doubtful one, as Macgillivray seems, in identifying 
the specimen, to have relied entirely on some anatomical characters which 
experience has shown to be variable.” 
XLIX. Anser albatus, Cassin. Cassin’s Snow Goose. 
Great Britain. 1 . Two, Lake of Tacumshane, County Wexford. 
Saunders, P. Z. S., March, 1872, where the locality is misstated. 
(Dresser, B. of E., pt. 19.) Nov., 1871. 
2. One, Wexford Harbor. Dresser, B. of E., 1. c. ? 
' 3. One shot, and another trapped alive out of a flock of seven, Ter- 
moncarra, Barony of Erris, Wexford. Harting, Zool., 1878, pp. 419, 453. 
Oct., 1877. 
[Anser canadensis, Boie. Canada Goose. 
Obs. — The occurrences of this species in Great Britain are so numer- 
ous, and its presence on private waters so common, that the former can 
only be considered as those of birds which have wandered from the latter. 
The species was introduced, according to Willoughby, upwards of two hun- 
dred years ago* into England. Professor Newton, of Cambridge, while 
admitting the possibility of examples having crossed the Atlantic, has 
informed me that he has never met with any plausible evidence that such 
is the case. A specimen was shot on the island of Stromo, one of the 
Faroes, on 4tli Oct., 1866, which, although it may have crossed from 
America, is just as likely to have strayed from some piece of water in 
Great Britain. Its occurrence is noted to me by Herr II. Muller of 
Faroe, in lit., 14 Mar., 1879.] 
L. Anas americana, Gmelin. American Widgeon. 
Great Britain. 1 . One, Leadenhall Market. Blyth, Naturalist, III, 
p. 417. Yarrell, Br. B., Ill, p. 293. Winter, 1837-38. 
2. One, Burn of Boyndie, Banffshire. Edwards, Zool., 1860, p. 6970. 
Jan., 1841. 
3. One, Strangford Lough, Ireland. Thompson, Nat. Hist. Ire., 
Birds, III, p. 112. (Harting, Hand-book Br. B., p. 159.) Feb., 1844. 
