134 THE BIRDS OF MONTREAL, 



river ice there about the 2nd of March, 1893 ; and 

 on the 28th November of the same year I received 

 a letter from him of that date, saying he was send- 

 ing me another specimen, which he shot on the 

 lake, below St. Andrews, and he saw large num- 

 bers there at the time ; the skin is in my collec- 

 tion. There was a most unusual flight of these 

 birds inland, as far as Toronto, in the month of 

 November. Mr. Hubert H. Brown, Secretary of 

 the Biological Society of Ontario, wrote to me, 

 under date of December 13, 1^93, that a specimen 

 was shot November 29 on Lake Ontario, at Toronto, 

 and that about thirty had been shot there, mostly 

 on 2nd December. The two specimens of this 

 species which I obtained are young birds, and, 

 judging by Mr. Brown's remarks in his letter to 

 me on the Toronto specimen, about the smallness 

 of the bills, they were all young birds. 



Genus Alca. Linnseus. 



252. Razor-billed Auk. A. torda. (Linn.) 



" Accidental Visitant," rare. The only record I 

 have of this species occurring here is of four seen 

 by Mr. T. Leclair, November 10, 1893, on the St. 

 Lawrence river, at St. Lambert, opposite the city 

 of Montreal, one of which he shot and took to Mr. 

 Craig, taxidermist, to stuff. It is probable that the 

 murres and this species were driven inland so far 



