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at Canandaigua (31), in New York State ; and on Lake Erie, 

 at Dunnville on the 21st. 



1898-9. 



I find no records ; they were absent from Lake Ontario, so 

 probably no migration occurred. 



1899-1900. 



The migration this season was wide-spread. 



In Vermont : " In 1899 this species was common about 

 Lake Champlain and inland. One sportsman (!) disgracefully 

 reported that he killed eighty in a single afternoon at 

 Shoreham-in-the-Lake. The specimens taken were very lean, 

 as if half starved" (32). They were also reported at Lake 

 Cayuga, New York (31). North of Lake Ontario they 

 were reported at Belmont and Moira Lakes near Hamlock, 

 Ontario. At Toronto they were not common, one being 

 taken on December 31st ; and on Lake Erie, at Erie, 

 Pennsylvania (37), on the 20th. 



On the Atlantic the flight was important, beginning on 

 the G-ulf of St. Lawrence ; they were reported at Chatham, 

 New Brunswick, in a starved condition. 



In New Hampshire " an interesting and apparently unusual 

 incursion of these birds into the southern part of the State 

 took place during the last week of November " (35), and is 

 recorded by Mr. Allen as follows : — Antrim, November 

 25th ; Charlestown, November 30th (on the Connecticut 

 River); Erancistown, November 27th; Franklin Falls, one 

 captured in a brush heap about the last of November ; 

 Lake Winnisquam, several specimens were taken, reports 

 from Laconia, Winnisquam and Tilton probably referred to 

 the same birds ; Meredith Neck on Lake Winnipesaukee, 

 Nashua, November 27th, Northfield, and Seabrook. There 

 is also a record for the 26th at Oyster Biver (27), and 

 Dr. Dearborn says " the stomach of one of the Oyster Biver 

 specimens examined by me contained four fish, each about 

 four inches long." 



