8 NOTES ON NEW ENGLAND BIRDS 



alle,^ or common sea-dove), which he says that he shot 

 in the fall on the pond of the Assabet at Knight's fac- 

 tory. There were two, and the other was killed with a 

 paddle. 



Nov. 19, 1860. Mr. Bradshaw says that he got a 

 little auk in Wayland last week, and heard of two more, 

 one in Weston and the other in Natick. Thinks they 

 came with the storm of the 10th and 11th. 



^ [Now called Alle alle by the ornithologists.] 



