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of Grimsby, report that none were observed in their respective 

 districts. 



Through the kindness of Mr. James Fletcher, I am able to 

 present the following notes by Mr. George R. White on these 

 birds in the district of Ottawa : 



" The ones shot here, five in all, were Uria lornvia, Brun- 

 nich's Murres, and were birds of the year ; as far as I can 

 ascertain, the flock consisted of twenty birds upon arrival, and 

 fifteen upon departure, five having decided to remain. 



"Four were shot on the Ottawa River, near Templeton, and 

 one, as far as I can ascertain, was shot in the canal at St. Louis 

 Dam. . . . These birds were all shot on the igth of 

 November." 



Mr. Ernest D. Wintle, of Montreal, has given so much inter- 

 esting and important evidence concerning these birds, that I 

 will insert most of his observations : 



" Large numbers visited this district the latter end of 

 November last, and quite a number were shot near Montreal. 



" Last April a fresh dead one was picked up on the ice at St. 

 Andrews, P.Q., up the North River, about forty-five miles 

 south-west of Montreal, and it was sent to me by a man who 

 resides there, and who has hunted around that district for 

 years, but had never seen a bird like it before. 



" I received another specimen from the same man, which he 

 shot on the Lake of Two Mountains, an expansion of the 

 Ottawa River, a few miles below the mouth of the North River, 

 and he wrote me at the time, the latter end of November last, 

 that there were any ' amount ' of them on the lake. 



" I saw a mounted specimen here which was shot out of a 

 small flock last December (1892), on the Richelieu River, near 

 St. John's, about twenty-seven miles south-east of Montreal, 

 previous to which I had no record of Brunnich's Murre occuring 

 in this district. 



" I have measured the two specimens in my possession, and 

 find them as follows : Length, 15-I and 13^- inches (one skin is 

 stretched more than the other) ; wing, 8, 7 ; culmen, 1^, 1 ; 

 gonys, f, 1 ; depth of bill through angle, 7-16, 7-16 ; tarsus, if, 

 if ; middle toe, if, if." 



