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it and kept it two or three days. It was a persistent diver when put 

 into the water; would offer to iight when approached, and did not 

 make much effort to get away. The third bird was sent to him by 

 Mr. J. P. Warner, of Fowler, Benton County. Mr. Warner has written 

 me the bird was captured on the road about three miles west of Fow- 

 ler by a teamster, whose name is unknown to him, about December 20. 

 He adds that he never saw but one other bird of this Icind. It was 

 caught near Eeynolds, T^Taite County, Indiana, by Mr. Linck, a night 

 watchman on the Panhandle E. E., in March, 1869. He adds, "it 

 lived three or four days and died in my possession, but was not pre- 

 served." The fourth was received by the taxidermist, about December 

 20, from Mr. A. C. Littleton, Pickard, Indiana. It was caught alive by 

 Mr. Abel Christy, about three-fourths of a mile north of that place, 

 December 10, and was kept alive until it was sent to be mounted, but 

 died on the road. 



Prof. E. L. Moseley, Sandusky, Ohio, informs me that the four 

 specimens he reported were taken within twenty miles of Sandusky, 

 December 19, 1896. 



Bulletin No. 13, of the Wilson Ornithological Chapter of the Agas- 

 siz Association, March 30, 1897, p. 16, records the identification of two 

 specimens by Eev. J. M. Keck, Mentor, Ohio, December 19, 1896, as 

 Uriai troile. Mr. Lynds Jones made a careful examination of the one 

 specimen taken and found it to be an immature Briinnich's Murre, 

 Uria lomvia. It was captured near Painesville, Ohio, on Lake Erie. 



A fine adult male was taken by a twelve-year-old boy on the Iro- 

 quois Eiver, Iroquois Township, Newton County, Indiana, one and a 

 half miles from Poresman, near what is Icnown as the old Indian 

 Ford, December 31, 1896. It was shipped to a firm on South Water 

 street, Chicago, where Mr. P. M. Woodruff obtained it, and it is now 

 in his collection. He obtained the information given above from the 

 postmaster at Poresman, Indiana, and kindly sent it to me. 



The Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithologiieal Club, January, 1897, 

 p. 10, refers to a Murre identified as Uria troile, which Mr. N. A. 

 Wood informs me is shown by reexamination to be Uria lomvia. The 

 specimen is an adult male and was shot from a flock of several near 

 Gibraltar, Michigan^ December 26, 1896, by some duek hunters. The 

 specimen is, I understand, in the museum of the University of Michi- 

 gan at Ann Arbor. In the same publication, on page 8, ia a reference 

 to two Black Guillemots taken at the St. Clair Plaits near Detroit, 

 Michigan. From a letter received from Mr. W. A. Davidson, Detroit, 

 Michigan, I gather that one of the two birds noted is in the possession 

 of Mr. C. Havens of that city. The other belongs to a lighthouse- 



