24 Brrps oF MASSACHUSETTS 
a Massachusetts specimen,! although, as there are undoubted Maine records 
it is not unlikely it may rarely occur. One (No. 8924) from Hudson, in the 
mounted collection of the Museum of Comparative ZoOdlogy labelled U. 
trotle is without question U. lomviéa. 
29. Uria lomvia (Linn.). BRUNNICH’s MuRRE. 
A “common winter visitant along the coast,” accidental inland. 
Fully twenty birds were taken inland in the Southern New England 
States during the last week of November, 1899, and curiously 
enough this flight did not seem to be caused by any heavy storm. 
Evidence is accumulating to show that there is a somewhat regular 
migration across Southern New England from the Maine coast to 
Long Island Sound. 
Berkshire: ‘‘ Accidental visitant.’ Three records. Bristol County : 
“Winter visitant. One record.” Brookline: Accidental. Cohasset: 
“ Rather rare in spring and fall.” Essex County: “ Winter. Not com- 
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mon.” Ipswich: One record. Nantucket: ‘‘ Common.’ 
“A number recorded.” 
30. Cepphus grylle (Linn.). Brack GuILLEMor. 
A not uncommon winter visitant off the coast, but to the south 
of Cape Cod it is rare. 
November 5 to April 11. (May.) 
Bristol County: ‘*‘ One taken on the Taunton River.” Cohasset: “ Fairly 
common in fall and winter.’ Essex County: “ Winter. Common.” 
Nantucket: “Scarce.” ‘ 
Note: Cepphus mandtit (Licht.). MANpbT’s GUILLEMOT. 
Has been accorded to the State as a rare winter visitant off the coast in 
Dr. J. A. Allen’s 1886 list; but we know of no specimens ever having been 
taken in the State, even the one Maine record being now expunged. 
Note: Svmorrhynchus cristatellus (Pall.). CRESTED AUKLET. 
The following is of interest; but the evidence is hardly sufficient to 
warrant enumeration: “While on a recent collecting trip to Chatham, 
Mass., I was asked by Mr. A. W. Baker, an intelligent and trustworthy 
gunner and fisherman of that place, to give him the name of a bird killed 
at Chatham during the winter of 1884-85, which he described as being 
very much like a little Auk or. Dovekie in form and color, though a little 
larger, and having a tuft of narrow, pointed feathers on the front of the 
head, curving upward and forward, From his minute description of the 
1 Brewster; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. VII, No. 4, Oct., 1882, p. 251. 
