BIRDS OBSERVED IN LITCHFIELD COUNTY 



found dead in woods in Torrington about the first of Octo- 

 ber, 1891, by Mr. Ansel Wheeler, just after a severe storm. 

 It is a tropical species, and this is the only County record, 

 though it has been taken elsewhere in the State. I examined 

 the specimen, mounted, at the home of Mr. Wheeler. 



10. Black Tern. Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis. A rare 



straggler from the coast. This is one of the terns which 

 one would expect to find occasionally, but the only occur- 

 rence of which I know definitely is one seen by Mr. Wil- 

 liams in Winsted, on Old Park Pond, about nine years 

 ago. It was in late September or early October, on a 

 foggy day. There were other terns flying about, but only 

 this one came near enough to identify. 



11. Leach's Petrel. Oceanodroma leucorhoa. An accidental 



straggler from the ocean. One taken by Mr. James True- 

 love, flying about over Lake Wononscopomus, Lakeville, 

 in October, 1904, after stormy weather, was reported to 

 me by Doctor Bishop. Another specimen, recently seen 

 mounted by Mr. Hanson, was picked up dead in Tor- 

 rington in September, 1906. 



12. American INIerganser. Mergus americanus. A fairly com- 



mon migrant and winter resident. From November to 

 April I see small flocks in the Housatonic River, and they 

 are reported elsewhere by a number of observers. 



13. Red-breasted Merganser. Mergus serrator. More common 



than the preceding on the coast, but apparantly less so on 

 the fresh waters of this County, where it is likewise a 

 migrant and winter resident. It may occur quite fre- 

 quently, but is hard to distinguish from the last. I saw 

 one in Cornwall in early May, 1902, which had suddenly 

 fallen from the air into the yard of Mr. T. S. Gold. 



14. Hooded Merganser. Lophodytes cucullatus. An uncom- 



mon migrant. Mr. Woodruff reports one secured in 

 Bantam Lake, Sept. 15, 1905. Mr. Williams sees them 

 occasionally, and saw a female with young in Winchester 

 about fifteen years ago. 



15. Mallard. Anas boschas. An uncommon migrant. I saw 



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