OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 63 



part of the state, and in the less disturbed regions to the north 

 they are yet fairly common summer residents. " Twenty years 

 ago," writes Mr. Dearborn ('98, p. 3), " they bred every sum- 

 mer at one or more of the headwaters of the Suncook river." 

 They still breed at Winnipesaukee and Asquam Lakes . Mr. 

 G. H. Thayer writes me that a pair nests annually at Breed's 

 pond near Chesham, and Dr. W. H. Fox states that a pair bred 

 in 1899 at lyake Sunapee. They were known to breed also at 

 Bow pond, Strafford, some 15 years ago (W. K. Jenkins, '84, p. 

 23). Off the coast, at Rye Beach, Mr. William Brewster tells 

 me that barren birds were observed to pass the entire summer 

 on the ocean, while the flight from the north began soon after 

 September ist. During September and October they are com- 

 mon as migrants on the wind-swept lakes and along the coast. 



5. Gavia lumiiie (Gunn.). Red-throated Loon. 



Inland, a rare fall migrant ; &.long the coast, it should occur 

 as a winter resident Mr. C. F. Goodhue ('77a, p. 146) records 

 one taken at Webster, in the fall of 1876, and there is also a 

 specimen in the Acworth Public lyibrary taken at Alstead, No- 

 vember 4, 1886. Mr. G. H. Thayer has noted it as a rare au- 

 tumn visitant to Dublin Pond. 



0. Fratercula arctica (Linn.). Puffin. 



A winter visitant off the coast. Mrs. Celia Thaxter (370, p. 

 210) records the " sea parrots " astound in winter about the 

 Isles of Shoals. 



7. Ceppliiis g'rylle (Linn.). Beack Guieeemot. 



A winter visitant off the coast. Mr. A. A. Baton of Seabrook 

 writes me of one taken near there in December, 1888. Mrs. 

 Celia Thaxter ('70, p. 210) also mentions it as a winter bird at 

 the Isles of Shoals. 



8. Uria loin via (Linn.). Brunnich's Murre. 



A common winter resident along the coast, and of occasional 

 occurrence inland, whither it is sometimes blown by easterly 

 winds. Thus Prof. William Patten writes me of one captured 

 in an exhausted condition by a farmer within two or three miles 



