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  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  

  

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  This 
  holarctic 
  species 
  is 
  more 
  northern 
  in 
  distribution 
  than 
  the 
  preceding, 
  and 
  rarely 
  wanders 
  

   farther 
  south 
  than 
  Maine 
  or 
  Massachusetts. 
  It 
  breeds 
  on 
  Hudson 
  bay, 
  and 
  Mr 
  Fleming 
  and 
  others 
  

   believe 
  that 
  the 
  guillemots 
  which 
  are 
  rarely 
  taken 
  on 
  Lake 
  Ontario 
  are 
  of 
  this 
  species. 
  The 
  late 
  

   David 
  Bruce 
  has 
  labelled 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  Cepphi 
  in 
  the 
  Mechanics 
  Institute 
  Collection 
  in 
  Rochester 
  "Lake 
  

   Ontario," 
  but 
  his 
  notes 
  do 
  not 
  indicate 
  that 
  he 
  actually 
  took 
  them 
  on 
  Lake 
  Ontario. 
  He 
  does 
  state 
  

   however 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  found 
  their 
  remains 
  on 
  the 
  lake 
  shore 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  drift. 
  

  

  Uria 
  troile 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

   Murre 
  

  

  Distinctive 
  marks. 
  Similar 
  in 
  color 
  to 
  Brtinnich 
  murre 
  but 
  in 
  breeding 
  

   plumage 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  hind 
  neck 
  smoky 
  brown; 
  depth 
  of 
  bill 
  at 
  angle 
  less 
  

   than 
  one 
  third 
  the 
  culmen. 
  See 
  figure. 
  

  

  The 
  Common 
  murre 
  is 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  north 
  Atlantic, 
  and 
  migrates 
  as 
  far 
  

   as 
  southern 
  New 
  England 
  in 
  winter, 
  but 
  among 
  the 
  scores 
  of 
  murres 
  from 
  New 
  

   York 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  examined 
  no 
  specimen 
  of 
  troile 
  can 
  be 
  found. 
  DeKay, 
  

   Giraud 
  and 
  Lawrence 
  record 
  this 
  species 
  from 
  New 
  York, 
  as 
  many 
  later 
  ob- 
  

   servers 
  have 
  done, 
  but 
  the 
  records 
  probably 
  refer 
  to 
  young 
  lomvia. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  

   strange 
  fact 
  that 
  no 
  specimen 
  of 
  troile 
  from 
  New 
  York 
  can 
  be 
  secured 
  but 
  

   the 
  conclusion 
  must 
  be 
  that 
  it 
  does 
  not 
  migrate 
  as 
  far 
  south 
  as 
  lomvia, 
  or 
  

   that 
  our 
  specimens 
  of 
  lomvia 
  are 
  from 
  Hudson 
  bay 
  and 
  the 
  Arctic 
  ocean. 
  

  

  U..Lomvia,Ad. 
  

   Bills 
  o£ 
  murres 
  J 
  nat. 
  size 
  

  

  Uria 
  lomvia 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

   Brunnich 
  Murre 
  

  

  Alca 
  lomvia 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  

   Uria 
  lomvia 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  

  

  Plate 
  3 
  

  

  Ed. 
  lo. 
  1758. 
  I 
  

   Ed. 
  2. 
  1895^ 
  No. 
  

  

  130 
  

   31 
  

  

  u'ria, 
  Gr. 
  ovpia, 
  some 
  diving 
  bird; 
  lom'via, 
  Faroese 
  name 
  

  

  Description. 
  In 
  winter: 
  Upper 
  parts, 
  wings 
  and 
  tail 
  black; 
  tips 
  of 
  

   secondaries 
  and 
  under 
  parts 
  white; 
  throat 
  and 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  neck 
  inixed 
  with 
  

   grayish 
  white. 
  Breeding 
  plumage: 
  Head 
  and 
  neck 
  sooty 
  black, 
  the 
  front 
  

   of 
  the 
  neck 
  browner. 
  Length 
  16. 
  5-16. 
  8 
  inches; 
  extent 
  30-31; 
  wing 
  8.4; 
  

   bill 
  1.25; 
  depth 
  of 
  bill 
  .48; 
  tarsus 
  1.3; 
  middle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw 
  1.7. 
  Young 
  

   birds 
  have 
  smaller 
  bills. 
  

  

  This 
  species, 
  known 
  also 
  as 
  the 
  Thick 
  -billed 
  guillemot, 
  is 
  the 
  commonest 
  

   member 
  of 
  the 
  Auk 
  family 
  on 
  the 
  waters 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  State, 
  and 
  seems 
  to 
  

   be 
  growing 
  commoner 
  in 
  recent 
  5^ears, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  interior 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  

   where 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  almost 
  a 
  regular 
  winter 
  visitant 
  on 
  the 
  larger 
  lakes 
  for 
  

   several 
  years. 
  Most 
  of 
  the 
  specimens 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  interior 
  have 
  been 
  

   emaciated 
  and 
  evidently 
  unable 
  to 
  obtain 
  food, 
  but 
  some 
  were 
  able 
  to 
  

   survive 
  till 
  spring, 
  and 
  possibly 
  would 
  have 
  returned 
  to 
  their 
  breeding 
  

  

  