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points over southern New Hampshire and western Massachu- 

 setts. Apparently there was no meteorological disturbance at 

 this time of sufficient severity to have forced the birds inland, 

 and we are obliged to look for another explanation of this phe- 

 nomenal flight. May it not be that a general migration of the 

 Mnrres along the Nova Scotia shores had taken place at this 

 time, and in their southward flight the birds had followed the 

 trend of the coast of Maine, and on reaching southern Maine, a 

 number of them, instead of turning to skirt about the out-jutting 

 coast of Cape Ann and eastern Massachusetts, had continued 

 straight on in their southwesterly course, and so have crossed 

 southern New Hampshire and reached the Connecticut Valley, 

 down which some may have continued, and so reached the ocean 

 waters off New York ? A glance at the map shows that if a 

 straight course parallel to the Maine coast were thus followed, 

 it would lead necessarily over the route indicated. We may 

 suppose that those birds which were found to have come to earth 

 at the various localities mentioned, were either exhausted or 

 bewildered, or had reached the end of a first stage of migratory 

 flight. Mr. R. H. Howe, Junior, further contributes the inter- 

 esting fact that on November 30, 1901, Mr. H. T. Winchester 

 observed numbers of small flocks of Murresou Newfound Lake, 

 about 100 birds in all. At sundown they began " peeping," 

 each flock to flock, and gradually gathered on some rocks along 

 the south shore of the lake. They were very wary, and with 

 some difficulty Mr. Winchester shot two, one of which is in the 

 mounted collection of Camp Pasquaney at Bridgewater, Future 

 observations may show that this crosscut is not seldom taken 

 by these birds on their southward flight. 



9. Plautus impennis (Linn.). Great Auk. 

 In former times this bird doubtless occurred on our shores, 

 and is mentioned by Belknap in 1792 as the " Penguin." 



10. Alle alle (Linn.). Dovekie. 



A not uncommon winter visitant off the coast ; inland, it is of 

 casual occurrence, being driven in by storms. Thus, specimens 

 have been obtained at Concord, where after a severe storm, one 



