Unusual Migration of Brimmch's Murre. 537 



1901-2. 



This flight does not seem to have extended past Lake 

 Ontario, the birds were reported at St. Eugene, Ontario, and 

 at Ottawa. Mr. White says :— " November 13th. The flight 

 commenced and continued until the 15th, large flocks passing* 

 all day, and I presume during the night; a number were 

 killed, others were caught alive." At Toronto the birds 

 were noticed in the usual starved condition. 



On the sea coast the migration was not extensive. In 

 New Brunswick, at Scotch Lake, Mr. W. H. Moore says, 

 " Late in the autumn or early winter of 1901, one of these 

 birds was found by cruising lumbermen, in deep woods far 

 from any lake ; another was found along the line of the 

 C.P.R., between Fredricton and Woodstock." 



In Connecticut they were recorded on the Still River, in 

 the Housatonic Valley, and on December 6th on the Quin- 

 nipiac River. In Massachusetts at Newfoundland Lake (35), 

 November 30th. In New York, at Sag Harbour, December 6th, 

 and at Rockaway Beach on the 26th. Some of the birds at 

 least survived on the Atlantic coast, for a specimen taken 

 January 7th at Amagansett, and on March 2nd another at 

 Montauk Point, the stomachs of which were examined by 

 Dr. A. K. Fisher, and were found to contain no food. The 

 Sag Harbour specimen, however, was, according to Dr. Fisher, 

 " full of small fishes, twenty-five specimens of Goliosoma 

 bosci, and 2 Menidia sp. (?) " 



1902-3. 



The records for this season are few. 



On the St. Lawrence a large number visited Quebec, but 

 only a very small number reached Lake Ontario. 



In New Brunswick one was found dead at Lake Macmqus- 

 daic. 



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