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belongs to a lighthouse keeper, whose name he does not know, at the 

 St. Clair Flats. Evidently both specimens are Uria loiiivia. It is possi- 

 ble a careful examination of tiie specimens will show that these also belong 

 to this species. 



Briinnich's Murre has, as I have been informed, been reported the 

 present winter from other interior localities. It has I believe, however, 

 never before been authentically reported far from the ocean. Mr. Robert 

 Ridgwav informs me that thev have this winter ranged down the Atlantic 

 coast as far as South Carolina. It would seem probable that some storm 

 had driven them far out of their usual range. Evidently those noted 

 herein were carried inland and dispersed about the same time, perhaps by 

 the same storm. They were all taken within a few daj's. Only twenty-one 

 days elapsed from the date when the first was obtained until the last was 

 in the hands of a naturalist. This is its first record from Indiana, except 

 that reported by Mr. Warner which, unfortunately, is not verified by the 

 specimen. It will be of interest to hear of other records of the occurrence 

 of this species inland. It will be noted that there is a specimen preserved 

 in a public museum in Indiana and in Michigan to verify the records from 

 those States. It is to be hoped that one of the Ohio specimens mav be 

 secured for a like purpose. 



2. Numenius longirostris. Long-billed Curlew. — Last fall there 

 was a specimen of this bird in the store of Mr. Fletcher M. Noe, Indian- 

 apolis, which he informed me was taken by Mr. Herman Eckert, Apr. 2, 

 1896, in a swamp near Jasper, Dubois County. Mr. P'rank M. Woodruff, 

 notes a specimen from Liverpool, Ind., in his collection, in 'The Auk' 

 for April, 1896, p. 181. 



3. Macrorhamphus griseus. Dovvitcher. — Mr. F. M. Woodruff 

 writes me that he has a bird of this species in his collection taken at 

 Liverpool, Ind., Sept. 9, 1892. When shot it was flying alone o\er the 

 Little Calumet River. First Indiana record. 



4. Tringa canutus. Knot. — To Mr. F. M. Woodruff I am indebted for 

 the first record of its occurrence in Indiana. He informs me that he 

 found a single specimen in a flock of Sandpipers on the beach near 

 Millers, Lake County, Indiana, Aug. 24, 1896. The specimen is "in 

 the light grayish juvenile plumage, with scale like markings on the back 

 of pure white." 



5. Tringa bairdii. Baird's Sandpiper. — The first specimen of 

 Baird's Sandpiper, so far as is known, that was taken in Indiana was 

 obtained by Mr. W. O. Wallace at Wabash, Ind., Aug. 26, 1893. Mr. 

 Woodruff writes me that among a flock of Sandpipers seen at Millers, 

 Ind., Aug. 24, 1896, there were several, probably five, of these birds. From 

 Michigan there are but two records (The Auk, April, 1896, p. 174 and 

 July, 1896, p. 225). From Ohio there are perhaps a half dozen records 

 (Wheaton. Birds of Ohio, 1882, p. 473-475). 



6. Ampelis garrulus. Bohemian Waxwing. — Mr. J. E. Beaslev, of 

 Lebanon, Ind., who formerly lived in Indianapolis, says about fortv vears 



