536 J. H. Fleming : 



In Massachusetts they were recorded from Springfield (80) 

 and Onota Lake on the 30th (27). Mr. Glover M. Allen says 

 of this flight : — " Evidently there was a large migration of 

 Brmmiclrs Murres about the last of November, 1899, extend- 

 ing so far southward as Virginia, and in the course of this 

 migration a number of the birds on an overland flight seem 

 to have become exhausted and constrained to seek the 

 ground, alighting whenever they might, at various points 

 over Southern New Hampshire and Western Massachusetts. 

 Apparently there was no meteorological disturbance at this 

 time of sufficient severity to have forced the birds inland, and 

 we are obliged to look for another explanation of this 

 phenomenal flight. May it not be that a general migration 

 of the Murres along the Nova Scotia shores had taken place 

 at this time, and in their southward flight the birds had 

 followed the trend of the coast of Maine, and on reaching 

 Southern Maine, a number of them, instead of turning to 

 skirt about the out -jutting coast of Cape Ann and Eastern 

 Massachusetts, had continued straight on their south-westerly 

 course, and so have crossed Southern New Hampshire and 

 reached the Connecticut Valley, down which some may have 

 continued, and so reached the ocean waters off New York? " 

 (35). While this route is possible, it seems not improbable 

 that some at least of the birds from Lake Champlain found 

 their way south by way of the Hudson River, joining the 

 coastwise migrations in the vicinity of Long Island, from 

 where they were recorded at Amityville, November 22nd, at 

 Rockaway Beach, December 14th, and at Point Judith (33), 

 November 26th. The migration found its southern limit in 

 Virginia, at Broadwater Bay (35). 



1900-1. 



The migration was not extensive, and the records are few. 



On Lake Ontario the first record is from Toronto, Novem- 

 ber 30th ; at Rochester (31), on the south shore, from 

 November 27th to December 2nd. On Lake Erie, at Erie 

 (37), on the same dates. 



On the sea coast at Rockaway Beach, December 2nd, and 

 at Saybrook. 



