84 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



[30] Uria troile (Linn.). Murre. This bird is stated by Putnam' and by Maynard- to be 

 not uncommon in winter oti' the coast. I have not observed the bird here and have seen no 

 specimen from the County. Howe and Allen omit it from their list of the birds of Massa- 

 chusetts. 



8 [31] Uria lomvia (Linn.). 

 Brunnich's Murre; Murre; "Ice-bird." 



Not uncommon winter visitor; November 21 to February 21. 



The Briinnich's Murre is to be found in winter off rocky promontories, 

 especially that of Cape Ann. I have, however, seen several in Lynn Harbor 

 and I once picked one up dead on Ipswich Beach. They are generally very 

 tame and unsuspicious birds. 



Herbert K. Job ^ relates : "One bitter December morning, with the mercury 

 at zero, I watched a group of Murres in Lynn Harbor, off Nahant. There was 

 a channel-post that sloped considerably with the tide, and these Murres would 

 waddle up the incline, sit awhile, then dive headlong, and climb up again seeming 

 to greatly enjoy the sport." 



The only bird for which the Briinnich's Murre could be mistaken on this 

 coast is the Razor-billed Auk. The points of distinction will be considered 

 under that bird. 



9 [32] Alca torda Linn. 

 Razor-billed Auk; "Tinker"; "Ice-bird." 



Not uncommon winter visitor ; November 22 to February 11. 



There is a record in the catalogue of the Peabody Academy collection of a 

 head of this bird found on Ipswich Beach as late as April, in 1885. This of 

 course gives no clue to the time when the bird was alive. They undoubtedly 

 stay later than February i ith, but that is the latest record I have. 



The first time I saw these birds on our coast was in November, off the 

 beach at Ipswich. There were three of them and I made a note of their black 

 backs and heads and pure white breasts, that their bills appeared pointed and 



' F. W. Putnam : Proc. Essex Inst., vol. i, p. 222, 1856. 

 2 C. J. Maynard: The Naturalist's Guide, p. 159, 1870. 

 ' H. K. Job : Among the Water-Fowl, p. 92, 1903. 



