1896 Oct. 2 Lake Umbagog. When by fusceus et caeruleus An easterly storm running steadily all day but internal winds wind. At about 4 P.M. Charles Douglass was returning to Wadham's from Upton with the Steamer Aristides when he saw two large, light-colored birds on a long narrow strip of grass which at the present stage of water forms the extreme norwesterly island at the mouth of Cambridge River and which is situated in Cambridge, N.H. only about 200 yrs. west of the State line. He took them at first for Hens (one was lying down with the head & wings throwing about the grass, the other flanding) but when he got within about 30 yds. he saw that they were Geese. The engineer fired a shot at them but missed. They ran & flew about 50 yards slightly again in the water. When the Steamer came again within about 40 yds. Chas. Douglass shot them both, one with caula based. They were perfectly silent. I afterwards learned that at 3.30 P.M. a party of three young men coming down the brook in a canoe started these Geese from the S. end of Great Island. I bought these birds of Douglass one hour after he shot them. One seems to be a Blue Goose, the other a Lesser Snow Goose. I have just plummed the Blue Goose. It seems to be a young ♂. The stomach was filled with sand, and a compact mass of the common crow, very under grass that grows all about the lake shores. The neck was in good condition but made only a very title part adjoining to the [illegible] 8½-28.50; up 3-300 in. long, feet webbed, nails black, from color blue dull black with flesh colored feathers near tip, on the ridge of the upper mandible, this does The Lesser Snow Goose also proved to be a young ♂. It was in good condition but there was absolutely no fat on the skin which was very much thinner & tougher than that of the Blue Goose. The stomach is a membranous tube 6 or 8 inches in length connecting the stomach with the throat were crowned with the form even, very gray that the Blue Goose had eaten. Length 27.50; up 3-8.14 wings. Sculpt but is very light greenish blue; inside horn - color ; bills largely uniform dark brown color shading into pale olive brown at tip of both mandibles but without light blotching, this clear head.