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of the birds and realised that they were new to him. He shot 
two of the flock. The more highly-colored of these he sent to 
N. Vickary of Lynn who mounted it for him; the other bird was not 
preserved. 
Mr. Dill recalls that he was informed at the time that 
another specimen of these strange geese was shot by a Boston 
gunner "up Wellfleet way". 
The pond where these Barnacle Geese were shot was always 
a great resort for Sheldrake and Canada Geese but no Brant ever 
stopped there. 
The foregoing statement seems to leave no doubt that the 
Barnacle Goose shot in 1885 by Mr. Dill and preserved by him all 
these years was a wild bird. The only record of the occurrence 
of this species in Massachusetts appeared in The Ornithologist and 
Oolcgist for 1886 (Vol. XI, Jan. p. 16), and is referred to in the 
"Birds of Massachusetts" by Howe and Allen. The record is as 
follows:- 
"Barnacle Goose ( Berniela le ucox sis). A Barnacle Goose 
was shot November 1, 1885, at North Chatham, Mass., and mounted 
by N. Vickary." 
This record refers undoubtedly to Mr. Dill’s bird although 
through some inadvertence the locality was given as "North Chatham". 
J. A. Parley. 
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