>30 J. H. Fleming : 



For this season I can hud only the following records, the 

 forerunners of a route to be followed in after years : — In 

 Quebec, at St. John's, on the Richelieu River, one was shot 

 out of a small flock, about in the middle of December (12), 

 and one found dead the following March, at St. Andrew's 

 P. Q., on the Ottawa (12). 



1893-4. 



This migration was a notable one, and the first to enter 

 the Great Lakes ; it has been very fully dealt with by Mr. 

 Hubert Brown (2), and Mr. Geo. E. Atkinson (1). Mr. C. E. 

 Dionne says : — " Since the loth of November last, numerous 

 flocks of Murres have been seen flying over the river before 

 Quebec ; hundreds have been shot by sportsmen, and some 

 have been killed with sticks near the wharves. . . . The 

 presence of these birds is a novelty here, as they are never 

 met with in the environs of the city. Several have even 

 strayed away into the mountains, about ten miles from 

 the river ; they were exhausted and starving. After the 

 20th December their numbers considerably decreased, till 

 the 8th of January, when the last was seen " (4). Following 

 up the St. Lawrence, at Lake St. Peter, some seem to 

 have struck south, following the St. Francis River to Sher- 

 brook (1), where they were recorded between November 20th 

 and December 8th. Others passed up the Richelieu River 

 to Lake Ohamplaiii (1), where they were numerous during 

 December. Large numbers passed Montreal (1), where many 

 were killed ; the flight divided here, part following the 

 Ottawa River, where they were recorded at St. Andrew's, on 

 the Lake of Two Mountains (12), on November 28th. Mr. 

 Geo. R. White observed them in the vicinity of Ottawa (1) 

 on the 19th ; here they seem to have turned from the Ottawa, 

 surmounting the Rideau Falls, and passing up the Rideau 

 River, were, according to Mr. White, reported at Wel- 

 lington, Burritt's Rapids, and in the Rideau Lakes, finally 

 reaching Kingston at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, 

 where they probably joined the main flight that passed 



