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their heads against the wire mesh that separated 

 them. United in the same enclosure again, they 

 proved to be most devoted friends, always in 

 each other's company. At last the guinea fowl 

 fell ill and died and the goose was found dead 

 on the following day. An examination showed 

 disease and emaciation in the case of the guinea 

 fowl, but no signs of either in the case of the 

 goose. 



In this connection the following incident is 

 also pertinent. On a lawn near the sea at Mar- 

 blehead, Mr. F. A. Saunders and I discovered 

 the dead body of a Brunnich's murre, an arctic 

 sea-bird of the auk family that occasionally wan- 

 ders to our shores in winter. The bird had been 

 dead at least a week. Within a stone's throw, 

 just outside the breakers, swam a very live murre. 



Curiously enough, a correspondent in Rock- 

 port related later a similar experience with a 

 dead and living murre, and, on February 5, k;22, 

 Mr. F. A. Saunders and I found a third instance. 

 On the beach at Ipswich was a dead Brunnich's 

 murre and not far away and close to the 

 shore swam a live Brunnich's murre, a most 



