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especially late in the autumn, ' ' at Erie, the evidence so far at hand 

 does not admit of such a general statement as regards its abundance. 

 It is to be clsssed as a transient visitant, of casual occurrence in the 

 fall and early spring. In 1900 two specimens in immature dress were 

 secured from local gunners, both shot on Erie Bay, on October 23 and 

 November 19, respectively. A little later, on November 28, a third 

 specimen was captured on the bay by a gunner. On February 16, 

 1904, three were shot in "the channel at the Life-saving Station, and a 

 single bird was killed at the docks on February 25 also, all but one 

 of which are now in the Carnegie Museum. These seven examples 

 are all that are certainly known from this locality. 



6. Uria lomvia. BrUnnich's Murre. 



The month of December, 1896, was memorable for the appearance 

 of this maritime species at many points far inland, as far west as 

 Michigan and Indiana. The flight seems to have followed the basin 

 of the Great Lakes, along which there are numerous records. Thus, 

 specimens have been recorded from near Sandusky and Painesville, 

 Ohio (Butler, Auk, XIV., 1897, 197-198; id., Birds of Indiana, 

 1897, 566), taken December 19. With these occurrences the Erie 

 records, here published for the first time, are in close accord. Mr. 

 Bacon states that several were shot on the bay in December, 1896, 

 and although he quotes no dates, the time of their capture is fairly 

 well indicated by a specimen (labeled a female) in Mr. James Thomp- 

 son's possession that is marked " December 18, 1896," by the party 

 who mounted it. At least one other specimen from this fli.ht was 

 mounted by a local taxidermist, which bird is now in the Carnegie 

 Museum. The species was not met with again until November 20, 

 1899, when a single bird was killed on the bay by a gunner, this 

 specimen also eventually coming to the Carnegie Museum. In 1900 

 specimens were taken by gunners on November 27 and December 2, 

 from which flight two specimens are known to have been preserved, 

 one now in Mr. Bacon's collection, and the other in that of the Car- 

 negie Museum. All the gunners who have met with birds of this 

 species agree in stating that they were easily approached and killed. 



\Stercorarius pomarinus. Pomarine Jaeger. 



Of casual occurrence on Lake Erie, there being records for Cleveland (Wheaton, 

 Birds of Ohio, 1882, 546), Sandusky (Cook, Birds of Michigan, 1893, 2 7)> an< i 

 Lorain (Jones, Birds of Ohio, 1903, 27).] 



