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ACCIDENTAL. 
The species classed under this head are such as have wan- 
dered into the state from regions considerably removed 
which they regularly inhabit at some time of year. Their 
presence in the state cannot be accounted for in any other 
way than by supposing that some accident is responsible 
for their appearance in a place so far removed from their 
regular habitat, and therefore they cannot be expected to 
occur again under normal conditions. 
OrpErR PYGOPODES. Diving Birds. 
Family Atcip#. Auks, Murres, and Puffins. 
The only representative of this salt-water inhabiting 
family is the Briinnich Murre, which was probably blown 
across Canada by a severe northeast storm. It is accidental 
in the state, and so would not figure in the economy of the 
state. 
1. (31.) Urta tomvia (Linn.). —. 
Briinnich Murre. 
Butler, reported by E. L. Moseley as occurring at Sandusky on 
Lake Erie, Auk, 1897, 198. 
The records that have come to me of the capture of 
specimens of this species in Ohio are: Ashtabula 1, Lake 2, 
Lorain 4, Erie 3, and likely Ottawa counties, all during the 
last half of December, 1896. Fairport, December 18; 
Sandusky, December 19. The Lorain and Ashtabula rec- 
ords are given as late December, probably about Christ- 
mas. It is not unlikely that individuals of this large inland 
flight penetrated to some of the interior waters of this state, 
but if so, records are lacking. 
A wanderer from the northeast. 
