chen hyperborea. The Lesser Snow Goose in New England. - I have 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 autumnal 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 cærulescens) which was also killed, both birds coming into my possession less than an hour after their death. - WILLIAM BREWSTER, Cambridge, Mass.