24 Birds of Massachusetts 



a Massachusetts specimen ,i although, as there are undoubted Maine records 

 it is not unlikely it may rarely occur. One (No. 8924) from Hudson, in the 

 mounted collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology labelled U. 

 troile is without question U. lomvia. 



29. Uria lomvia (Linn.). Brunnich's Murre. 



A ''commop winter visitant along the coast," accidental inland. 

 Fully twenty birds were taken inland in the Southern New England 

 States during the last week of November, 1899, and curiously 

 enough this flight did not seem to be caused by any heavy storm. 

 Evidence is accumulating to show that there is a somewhat regular 

 migration across Southern New England from the Maine coast to 

 Long Island Sound. 



Berkshire : " Accidental visitant." Three records. Bristol County : 

 "Winter visitant. One record." Brookline : Accidental. Cohasset: 

 " Rather rare in spring and fall." Essex County : " Winter. Not com- 

 mon." Ipswich: One record. Nantucket: "Common." Springfield 

 " A number recorded." 



30. Cepphus grylle (Linn.). Black Guillemot. 



A not uncommon winter visitant off the coast, but to the south 

 of Cape Cod it is rare. 



November 5 to April 11. (May.) 



Bristol County : " One taken on the Taunton River." Cohasset: "Fairly 

 common in fall and winter." Essex County: "Winter. Common." 

 Nantucket : " Scarce." 



Note : Cepphus mandtii (Licht.). Maxdt"s Guillemot. 



Has been accorded to the State as a rare winter visitant off the coast in 

 Dr. J. A. Allen's 1886 list ; but we know of no specimens ever having been 

 taken in the State, even the one Maine record being now expunged. 



Note: Stmorrhynchus cristaiellus (PaW.). Crested Auklet. 



The following is of interest; but the evidence is hardly suflficient to 

 warrant enumeration: "While on a recent collecting trip to Chatham, 

 Mass., I was asked by Mr. A. W. Baker, an intelligent and trustworthy 

 gunner and fisherman of that place, to give him the name of a bird killed 

 at Chatham during the winter of i884-'85, which he described as being 

 very much like a little Auk or Dovekie in form and color, though a little 

 larger, and having a tuft of narrow, pointed feathers on the front of the 

 head, curving upward and forward. From his minute description of the 



1 Brewster; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. VII, No: 4, Oct., 1882, p. 251. 



