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were killed at Essex on the nth of that month and sent to me. At Port- 

 land, three were seen Dec. 14, and five on the 22d— specimens being taken 

 at each date which are in mj collection. I have never seen Brunnich's 

 Murre in this immediate vicinity before. 



Porzana noveboracensis.— Three specimens of this rarelv seen Rail 

 were shot here during September and October, 1S94. 



Ceophlceus pileatus.— Mr. Gurdon Trumbull tells me that a Pileated 

 Woodpecker was seen at Granby, Conn., during the early part of the 

 winter of 1S94-95. It was followed a mile or more and fully identified 

 but was not captured. This bird was in practically the same locality 

 where one was killed Nov. i, 1S90 (Auk, X, 1S93, 371). 



Vireo philadelphicus. — A female was taken here September 17, 1S94, 

 bv Mr. Samuel Robinson and is in my cabinet. It was found among 

 some large willows on an island in the Connecticut River, and shot 

 within a few feet of the spot where he killed a specimen September 21, 

 1893 (Auk, XI, 1S94, 181).— Jno. H. Sage, Portland, Conn. 



Bird Notes from St. Albans, Vermont. — The Brunnich's Murre 

 {^Uria lomvia), so far as my knowledge goes was first found here in 

 December, 1S92, at which time specimens were easily procured and added 

 to the cabinet. They came in large numbers to St. Albans Bay, an arm 

 of Lake Champlain, some three miles from town, during the winter of 

 1S92, returning in the winter of 1893, when a specimen was shot on the 

 13th of December. In January, 1894, another specimen was shot in Rich- 

 ford, an inland town bordering on the Canada line. In the past Decem- 

 ber they came by thousands, the lake seeming, in places, fairly swarming 

 with them. One sportsman shot 200, and each gunner brought more or 

 less of them to town, many of which were taken alive. Those who have 

 shot them say they are so tame one can almost catch them in their hands. 

 Thev are in poor condition, apparently starving, and very many have 

 been frozen into the ice and chopped out by fishermen. 



The Florida Gallinule is also supposed to be of rare occurrence in Ver- 

 mont, but for the past twenty years it has been common about Lake Cham- 

 plain, breeding here also, as it is a regular autumn experience to come 

 upon them with their young. 



The Great-crested Flycatcher {Myiarc/ius crinitiis) is also supposed to 

 be of rare occurrence, the only record being from C S. Paine of Ran- 

 dolph. I can echo Dr. Merriam's words, " that now it is certainly a really 

 common bird," not only in Connecticut but in northern Vermont as well. 

 Not only has nearly every piece of woods its * Great-crest,' but I see it 

 beside the roads, occasionally, in my drives. 



Wilson's Stormy Petrel (Oceanites occanicus) has also been taken here, 

 and, what is still more surprising, an elegant Meadowlark was given me 

 the 6th of January last. It had been about the doors of a neighbor's 

 house hunting for food and resting at night in willow trees that over- 

 huno- the piazza; its fearless confidence in humanity meeting the 



