Cpimtumro salty o f MassarljusBfls 
OFFICE OF 
SUPERINTENDENT 
FOR SUPPRESSING THE 
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths 
CPEC1MENS of insects 
^suspected of being either 
gypsy or brown tail moths 
should be packed in a 
small wooden or tin box, 
plainly marked with ad¬ 
dress of sender, and 
mailed to the Superin¬ 
tendent for identification. 
A letter giving full 
particulars should ac¬ 
company each sending. 
A. II. Kirkland 
SUPERINTENDENT 
G BEACON STREET 
Ctdd. 
September 29, 1906 
Mr. Warren Freeman informed me some time in 1905 that he 
recalled seeing as a lad a mounted specimen of an alleged Blue 
Goose at the home of Mr. Joseph Dill, North Eastham, Mass. 
On September 2, 1906, I went with Mr. Freeman to the home of 
Mr. Dill, and found instead of a Blue Goose a well-mounted and 
well-preserved specimen of the Barnacle Goose of Europe Branta leu cop- 
sls . 
The following facts were obtained from Mr. Dill by Mr. Freeman 
and. myself :- 
The Barnacle Goose was shot about Nov. 1, 1885,by Mr.Dill at 
North Eastham, Mass. Mr. Dill who has always lived at North 
Eastham and who has been a gunner there for fully fifty years, 
has never seen this species on any other occasion. The specimen 
which he shot was one of a flock of five of the same species which 
had been seen for several days to come into a little pond in a 
piece of salt marsh known as "Sunken Meadow," bordering on Cape 
God Bay. He went to his blind on the shore of the pond one day 
expressly to secure a specimen or more of these apparently strange 
Geese. The flock came in at about dusk. He saw the white faces 
