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A Sea Birp Intanp.—The cold, northeast storm of the past 
few days brought us a rare visitor in the shape of the Little Auk, 
Mergulus alle L. Two individuals were captured in full winter 
plumage and plump, though with empty stomachs. Their occur- 
rence thirty miles inland is somewhat remarkable. Allen records 
the capture of a single specimen at Greenfield, Mass, on the Con- 
necticut, and Linsley places the species among the birds of Con- 
necticut on the strength of one captured near Martha’s Vineyard. 
It is found on the coast of New Hampshire, New York and New 
Jersey in winter, and was therefore to have been expected on our 
own, but this is its first appearance in Middletown. — G. Brown 
Goopr, Middletown, Connecticut, November 18th. 
[The same storm drove a lot of the little auks to Middletown, 
Mass., and large numbers were taken along the coast of Massa- 
chusetts. Maynard says he has seen it in Florida. — Eps. ] 
Nore on HEMIRHAMPHUS( Ricnarpi?)—An ichthyological friend 
requests us to make a note of the unsuspected abundance of this 
fish on the North Carolina coast. It occurs at certain seasons in 
immense numbers, swimming near the surface in schools so large 
and dense that specimens may rapidly be secured by simply jerk- 
ing a naked hook through the water. — ELLIOTT Coves. 
OCCURRENCE OF THE OrcHARD ORIOLE IN SovuTH adie: — 
Dr. Coues, in his “Synopsis of the Birds of South Carolina,” 
enumerating the Icteridæ, says of the Orchard Oriole (Jcterus 
spurius), “rare; chiefly migrant; some probably breed.” My own 
observations in this State differ somewhat. 
On the 28th of June, this last spring, and a few days after my 
arrival at Camden, I happened to be walking across one of the 
public squares of the town, when among the songs of many other 
birds, I thought I distinguished the note of the Orchard Oriole, 
and the next moment caught sight of the familiar but unexpected 
person of this little dweller of our northern orchards. Flitting 
among the branches of a tree near by, every moment or two he 
sang his cheerful song, and while I stood watching, as he busily 
searched among the leaves for insects, his more sober partner 
joined him, holding in her bill a worm, which, however, she soon 
carried off, flying towards the other corner of the square. I fol- 
lowed, and in a few minutes after discovered the pendant nest, 
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