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7. Oceanodroma leucorhoa. IyEach's Petrel. 



In Dr. Allen's " Birds of New Hampshire " it is recorded 

 that two were seen and one of them shot, October i, 1897, on a 

 small pond in lyancaster by Mr. F. B. Spaulding. The pond 

 referred to, Mr. Spaulding informs me, is Blood's Pond, which 

 is a little removed from Martin Meadow Pond ; and he states, 

 "I did not shoot the bird; a boy shot it with a rifle and 

 brought me the remains." 



8. Sula bassana. Gannet. 



Soon after leaving Jefferson in early October. 1910, I learned 

 by letter from my assistant that a large web-footed bird, "meas- 

 uring thirty-six inches in length and having a spread of wings 

 of seventy inches, brownish black with small white spots on the 

 back of the shape of arrowheads, the bill opening back five and 

 a half inches," had been shot at the Meadows and on October 

 14 brought to a local taxidermist to be mounted. It appeared 

 from the description furnished that this bird could be none 

 other than a Gannet. A few days later at my suggestion Mr- 

 Spaulding drove to Jefferson, saw the bird, and pronounced it 

 "a Gannet in the plumage of the immature, of full size, and in 

 good condition." The bird was shot on October 13. A subse- 

 quent letter states that it was first seen on the farm barn at the 

 Davis place, passed from there to the store building, and was 

 shot on the ground back of the store. At the time of this occur- 

 rence severe gales were reported as sweeping the Atlantic coast 

 and delaying transatlantic steamers. Perhaps the presence of 

 the bird was due to these, Jefferson being a hundred miles from 

 the seacoast. I^arge numbers of Gannets were reported about 

 this time as seen at Ipswich, Mass., on their southward flight. 



9. Mergus americanus. Merganser. 



An uncommon summer resident on the rivers. One was 

 seen on June 12, 1903, in flight along Israel's River at the 

 Meadows. On June 24, 1907, a female was observed on the 

 Moose River in Randolph, flying down stream from the bridge 



