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the limits of its occurrence on Long Island ; namely, May 19 to June 10 

 and Aug. 4 to Sept. 18. — Wm. C. Braislix, M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Some Birds of Unusual Occurrence in Orleans County, N. Y. — During 

 the past week the writer has accomplished a casual reading of a complete 

 file of 'The Auk', from Vol. I, No. 1 to date, and rinds that during the 

 entire fifteen years of its publication it has contained only two items 

 which pertain to the ornithology of this county, and those were of but a 

 paragraph each. Our county has not, however, been so free from rare 

 avian visitors as this sparsity of record would seem to indicate. On the 

 contrary, there have been many occurrences well worthy of mention, 

 although it does seem that no one has taken the pains to have them prop- 

 erly recorded. Permit me now to make mention of some of the most 

 interesting of these, as follows : — 



Colymbus holboelli. Holboell's Grebe. — A somewhat ancient 

 record, dating back to May 1, 1873, on which day, Mr. David Bruce of 

 Brockport secured a specimen near Murray. This bird was somewhat 

 above the ordinary in size, measuring twenty-one inches in length. 



Uria lomvia. Brunnich's Murre. — Mr. F. A. Macomber of Murray 

 has a mounted specimen in winter plumage which was brought to him in 

 the first half of March, 1S97, having been taken alive by hand, in a 

 famished condition, on the ice of Sandy Creek. My collection contains 

 the mounted head of another individual which was picked up dead from 

 the Lake Ontario shore in the town of Kendall, by Mr. Harry Burnett. 



Rissa tridactyla. Kittiwake. — A mounted specimen in the collection 

 of Mr. O. B. Mitchell of Holley, taken by him on a pond in the town of 

 Clarendon after a heavy storm. 



Sterna caspia. Caspian Tern. — A finely mounted female of this 

 species is in the collection of Mr. David Bruce of Brockport, taken by 

 him in September, 1S90, on Lake Ontario, in the town of Kendall. 



Phaethon flavirostris. Yellow-billed Tropic Bird. — The extraordi- 

 nary occurrence of this very southern bird in our county is recorded by 

 Rev. J. H. Langille in his ' Our Birds in their Haunts,' page 615. 



Branta canadensis hutchinsii. Hutchins's Goose. — A specimen 

 taken at Gaines, about 188S, is now in the possession of Mr. Newell 

 Beekwith of that place. 



Plegadis autumnalis. Glossy Ibis. — An individual of this species 

 was shot in Tonawanda Swamp in May, 1S89 and brought to Mr. George 

 H. Hedley of Medina to be mounted. 



Ardea egretta. American Egret. — Three of these birds wandered 

 into our county in July, 1883, and two of them were shot near Kent on 

 the 27th of that month. One of these is now in the possession of Mr. 

 Edgar Ford of Carlyon, who shot it. 



Nycticorax nycticorax naevius. — Black-crowned Night Heron. — 

 The late Alfred Myhill of Medina once took a specimen from a marsh 



