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flight feathers are lacking, the new quills, although sprouting, 

 being as yet rudimentary and entirely incapable of supporting it 

 in the air. The feathers of the breast are largely wanting, leaving 

 the skin well protected, however, by the abundant dark-colored 

 down. Its comparatively helpless condition was doubtless re- 

 sponsible for its having been driven ashore, where it perished in 

 the surf. 



Uria lomvia. Brunnich's Murres occurred on the Long Island 

 coast during the winter of 1901-02. Four were obtained from 

 various localities. On Dec. 6, 1901, a female was killed at Sag 

 Harbor on a fresh-water pond. It came into the possession of 

 Mr. Ivan C. Byram a taxidermist of that village, who sent it to me 

 in the flesh. Mr. Robt. R. Peavey of Brooklyn shot one at Rock- 

 away Beach on Dec. 26, and kindly presented it to me. A 

 member of the crew of the Amagansett Life-saving Station, George 

 H. Mulford, found one on the beach, dead, at that place Dec. 30, 

 1 90 1, and another on March 2, 1902. The last is rather remark- 

 able as a Long Island specimen of the species, in that the feather 

 coloration approaches nearly, if not quite, the full nuptial plumage. 

 The feathers of the chin, sides of the throat and neck are of the 

 dark, sooty color seen in adults collected at their breeding stations. 

 No other skin which I have seen from Long Island has the dark 

 coloring so much developed. This may be attributed to the date 

 of occurrence, which is a late one for the species in this latitude. 

 The bill of this bird is larger than our usual sp>ecimens, its depth, 

 in fact, somewhat exceeding the limit for U. lomvia as indicated in 

 Chapman 's ' Birds of Eastern North America.' 



Alca torda. An immature Razor-billed Auk was sent me by 

 Capt. James G. Scott, keeper of the Montauk Point Light, on 

 Nov. 14, 1901. In regard to it he wrote: "The bird I sent you 

 was brought to me by a fisherman, and I think he found it on the 

 beach, for I have found them dead on the beach." 



Alle alle. Two little Auks were found by the same member 

 of the Amagansett Life-saving crew referred to above, while 

 patrolling the beach on the evening of December 14, 1901. He 

 wrote me that he had so obtained them and added: "The sea 

 was running very high and I suppose that they where washed in 

 on the beach." 



