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ORNITHOLOGY. 
Edited by A. (i. Kingston. 
Five specimens of Uria Lomvia, Briinnick's Murre, were shot near 
Ottawa on 20th November last. Four of these were shot on the Ottawa 
river near Templeton, and the other at the St. Louis Dam. There were 
about twenty birds in this flock. I learn from Dr. Brodie that several 
were seen in Toronto Bay. 
G. R. White. 
Mr. Wintle, of Montreal, also writes us that " large numbers of 
Briinnick's Murre have visited this neighborhood this fall, and as far up 
the Ottawa River as St. Andrews." He also says that a correspondent 
in Toronto speaks of having examined thirty specimens taken there. 
They have also been reported by Mr. Macllraith as occurring in some 
number at Hamilton. 
The family of the Murres and Auks are essentially birds of the sea- 
coast, the above and several kindred species breeding commonly on the 
rocky shores and islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The sole previous 
record of any member of the family at Ottawa is that of a Puffin 
(Fra/era/la arctica) in 1881, and even on the Great Lakes they are only 
known as rare and straggling visitors. Their invasion of our inland 
waters in such force as the above reports show is a matter well worthy 
of note. 
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Monograph of the North American Proctotrypidse ; 1))' William II. Ashmead. 
Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum, No. 45. 
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this continent. The systematic position of the family and its sub- 
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Naturalists the work has a special interest as it records about seventy 
