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are usually taken early in June, but I find among my notes the record of 

 a set taken August 5, 1873. at Dedham, Maine, the eggs being but slightly 

 incubated. This would seem to be presumptive evidence for the belief 

 that these birds raise two broods in a season. 



Lomvia ana briinnichi {Scl.) Ridgxv. Brunnich's Guillemot; and 

 Lomvia troile [Linn.) Brandt. Common Guillemot. — These birds 

 are found on our coast in the winter season, Briinnich's Guillemot being 

 quite numerous, while the Common Guillemot is more rare. Some idea 

 of their comparative numbers may perhaps be obtained from the fact that 

 during the past two years I have procured some thirty specimens from 

 difterent points on our coast (from Grand Manan to South Bristol) and 

 out of this number only one was a representative of the Common Guille- 

 mot (Z. troile.) The experience of Mr. N. A. Eddy of this city is exactly 

 similar, and out of about an equal number of specimens he has obtained 

 but a single example oi troile. Other collectors in this vicinity who have 

 received numbers of Guillemots ha\'e not obtained a specimen o{ Lomvia 

 troile. 



Actodromas fuscicoUis ( Vieill.) Ridgxv. Bonap.\rte's Sandpiper. — 

 This bird is not given as a resident of our State in Hamlin's, Verrill's or 

 Maynard's lists, but is still a not uncommon autumnal migrant along our 

 coast. They are seldom met with in the interior, and the only records 

 of their capture away from the coast, so far as I can learn, are here given. 

 Nathan C. Brown furnishes me the first record from his notes as follows : 

 " Oct. 16, 1876. During the past two weeks our party has taken only 

 three specimens of this bird at Lake Umbagog. One was shot about Oct. 

 i, the two others upon Oct. 14." On October zt,. 1881, I came upon a 

 flock of four at a small pool near this city (Bangor), and obtained three 

 of them. Mr. N. A. Eddy afterwards took one at the same place. — Harry 

 Merrill. Bangor. Maine. 



Stray Notes irom Lookout MoUjNTAIN. Tenx. — The following 

 notes were taken on Lookout Mountain. Tenn., from March 17 to April 4. 

 18S2. The "Mountain, " so-called, is a ridge, some twenty miles or more 

 in length, extending nearly due north and south. Its altitude ranges from 

 2200 to 2450 feet above the sea. and from T500 to 1750 feet above the Ten- 

 nessee River, which touches the base at its most northern point: its width, 

 at the top, is from half a mile to two miles. About two miles of its north- 

 ern end is in Tennessee, the rest being in Georgia. My collecting was 

 done mostly on the Tennessee portion, but occasionally I went into Geor- 

 gia, my longest trip into that State being five miles. The country is, for 

 the most part, heavily wooded, although towards the northern end a great 

 deal of the timber was destroyed during the late war and the new growth 

 is still quite small. There are numerous streams in the ravines, along 

 the banks of which laurels, blackberries, etc.. grow luxuriantly. On the 

 east side of the ridge there are. for half a mile, huge boulders, and the 

 trees, principally pines, on and around them, were, I found, a favorite re- 



