The Lesser Snow^j^Sfee'in' fafevA^ngfanc?. — I hlive lately added to my 
collection three New England specimens of the Lesser Snow Goose 
(Chen hyperborea')-, one taken at Toddy Lake, Maine, October 4, 1893, by 
Mr. Alvah G. Dorr of Bucksport, Maine, another at Lake Umbagog, Maine, 
October 2, 1896, by Mr. Charles Douglass, the third at Ipswich, Mass¬ 
achusetts, October 26, 1896, by a local sportsman who sent the bird in the 
flesh to Mr. M. Abbott Frazar of Boston. The specimen first named was 
not sexed; the other two birds were males. All three are young in fresh 
antumnal plumage and all are prefectly typical examples of hyperborea 
which, evidently, is of much commoner occurrence in New England than 
the large form nivalis. 
The Umbagog specimen was accompanied by a young Blue Goose 
(Chen cxerulescens) which was also killed, both birds coming into my 
possession less than an hour after their death.— William Brewster, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
