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Ditch Plain, L. I. Dec. 1887. (Stratton). Dutcher, Long Island Notes 



Montauk, L. I. wv, oc. (10-15 flocks). (Scott). " " 



Montauk Point, L. I. Jan. 6, 1887. L. S. Foster 



Gardiners Island, L. I. Jan. 20, 1890. Dead. (Lester). Dutcher 



Saratoga lake, N. Y. Nov. 26, 1893. (2 taken). S. R. Ingersoll ; A. S. Brewer 



Montauk Point, L. I. Nov. 14, 1901. Braislin, Auk, 20: 51 



Rockaway, L. I. "Regular," Nov. 2-Feb. 6. Braislin, Lin. Soc. N. Y. Proc. 1907. p.34 



Alle alle (Linnaeus) 

 Dovekie 



Plate 3 



A lea alle Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. i: 131 

 Mergulus alle DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 280, fig. 302 

 Alle alle A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 34 



al'lc, Swedish name of this bird 



Description. Summer plumage: Head, neck and upper parts sooty 

 black, the front of the neck and breast browner; secondaries tipped with 

 white and the scapulars streaked with the same; belly white. Winter and 

 immature: Similar, but the throat whitish, and sometimes a grayish collar 

 on the neck. Length 8 inches; wing 4.5 ; bill .5 ; tarsus .7. 



This little bird, called also Sea dove, Sea pigeon, Greenland dove and 

 Ice bird, is an irregular winter visitor to the shores of Long Island and 

 New York bay. Specimens are found on the shore nearly every winter, 

 dead or in an exhausted condition. OfE the coast it is frequently observed 

 from the decks of passing steamers. Like the Brlinnich murre it sometimes 

 straggles up the St Lawrence to Lake Ontario. There is one record for 

 Toronto, November 18, 1901 {see Ames, Auk, 19: 94]. The only specimen 

 which I have found from the interior of New York State was picked up in 

 a garden at Sweden, about 15 miles from Lake Ontario and died soon after 

 being found. The following records in recent years are worthy of note: 



Long Island, oc, wv. Giraud List. 1844. p. 375 



New York State. Rare on coast. DeKay List. 1844. p. 281 



New York and vicinity. Occurs. Lawrence List, 1866 



Center Moriches, L. I. Jan. 10, 1878. (R. B. Lawrence). Forest and Stream, 10: 235 



" Jan. II, 1878. Berier, Forest and Stream, 10: 37 



West Neck creek, L. I. Nov. 18, 1879. 6^. (Worthington). Dutcher, Notes 

 Center Moriches, L. I. Dec. 23, 1881; Nov. 1882. Dutcher, Auk, i: 35 

 Bayport, L. I. Nov. 1882 



