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of Hanover in February or March of 1894. A second bird was 

 said to have been taken there at the same time. An interesting 

 and apparently unusual incursion of these birds into the south- 

 ern part of the state, took place during the last week of Novem- 

 ber, 1899, when more than two dozen were taken, as follows : 

 Antrim, one sent in to Mr. J. P. Melzer, Nov. 25 ; Charlestown , 

 one shot Nov. 30, and a second Dec. i, on the Connecticut riv- 

 er; Francestown, one sent in to Mr. Melzer on Nov. 27 ; Frank- 

 lin Falls, one captured in a brush heap, about the last of Novem- 

 ber, according to Mrs. Ellen K. Webster; Lake Winnisquam , 

 several specimens were taken, reports from L,aconia, Winni- 

 squam and Tilton probably lef erring to the same birds. Mere- 

 dith Neck, Mrs. Ellen E. Webster ( : ooa) writes that three 

 were shot on Winnipesaukee, the locality being as above ; Nash- 

 ua, one found ' near a pond," and sent to Mr. J. P. Melzer on 

 Nov. 27 ; Northfield, one taken alive on Bean Hill according to 

 Mrs. Webster (in literis) ; Tilton, two sent to Mr. C. F. Good- 

 hue, were shot here. In addition to these captures, Mr. A. A. 

 Eaton writes me of two taken at Seabrook, on the coast, at 

 about the same time. Outside of New Hampshire, Messrs. Fax- 

 on and Hoffmann (: oo, p. 53) record a specimen killed Nov. 30, 

 1899, on Onota Lake, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, and also 

 give two other records for the bird in the county for previous 

 years; Mr. R. O. Morris (: 02, p. 6) took one at Springfield, 

 Mass.. Nov. 30, 1899, and states that during the last five or six 

 years the bird has occurred at that place a number of times ; 

 one was also taken in 1901. Mr. H. S. Hathaway (: oo) records 

 a specimen taken at Point Judith, R. I., Nov. 26, 1899, and 

 adds that he had seen " six recently " (i. e., before Dec. 19, 

 '99) taken off the Rhode Island coast. Finally, Mr. H. B. 

 Bigelow tells me that he. shot a single bird of this species on 

 Nov. 29, 1899, at Broad Water Bay, Virginia. Evidently there 

 was a large migration of Brunnich's Murres about the last of 

 November, 1899, extending so far southward as Virginia, and 

 .in the course of this migration a number of the birds on an over- 

 land flight seem to have become exhausted and constrained to 

 seek the ground, alighting wherever they might, at various 



