46 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



A specimen in the Academy of Natural Sciences, obtained in the 

 Philadelphia market in 1856, was probably taken in New Jersey, and 

 is the earliest record with which I am acquainted. Cassin, in 18 58, 1 

 perhaps on the strength of this capture, includes New Jersey in its 

 winter range. There is only one record for the Delaware, a specimen 

 shot at Pennsgrove, November, 18 9 1. 2 



The other records that I have found are as follows : 

 Long Beach; February 7th, 1878; one shot. W. E. D. Scott. 3 

 Cape May county (probably Five Mile Beach) ; January 20th. 

 1880. Dr. W. L. Abbott. 4 



Grassy Sound; February, 1891; three seen several times. P. Lau- 

 rent. 5 



Ocean City; January 10th, 1901; one shot. Mr. Schermerhorn. 6 

 Sea Isle City; January 23d, 1909; several seen; one shot by Thos. 

 Mitchell ; obtained by W. J. Fox. 7 



34 Alle alle (Linnaeus). 

 Dovekie, Little Auk. 



Adults in spring. Length, 7.25-9. Wing, 4.50. Above, black; head, neck 

 and chest, sooty brown; rest of under parts and tips of secondaries, white; 

 scapulars streaked with white. 



Adults in winter. Similar, but throat and sides of neck white. 



Young in first winter. Similar, but duller, with smaller bill. 



An irregular winter visitant along the coast, and occasionally up 

 the bay. Breeds on the rocky Arctic coasts. The earliest New Jersey 

 record is the one referred to by Ord in the ninth volume of the Ameri- 

 can Ornithology, which "was killed at Great Egg Harbor in the month 

 of December, 1811, and was sent to Wilson as a great curiosity." 



Turnbull says it is shot occasionally at Egg Harbor and on the 

 coast, and Krider (Field Notes) took two on the inlet at Atlantic 

 City November, 1874, but there is no other definite record until 1879, 



1 Birds of North America, p. 901. 



2 Abst. Proc. D. V. O. C., I., p. 12. 



3 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1879, p. 228. 

 * Colin. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. 



5 O. and O., 1892, p. 43. 



6 Cassinia, 1901, p. 46. 



7 Colin. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. 



