An Ornithologist’s Summer in Labrador 
M. Abbott Frazar. 
Uria troile , Murre. Very common but rap¬ 
idly diminishing. This species generally breed 
on the islands furthest out to sea and seldom 
make any effort at concealment, laying their 
eggs generally upon flat surfaces; often so 
close together that they get confounded and 
try to steal each others eggs. But quite of¬ 
ten I have found them away underneath the 
rocks on shelves where I have had to crawl 
on my stomach and then reach still further 
in with a forked stick to draw them out. I 
noticed quite a number of instances where 
eggs had been laid in little hollows among 
the rocks which had afterwards become full 
of water so as to nearly cover the eggs; how¬ 
ever, I saw quite a number of birds sitting 
upon eggs which were in just such positions; 
whether they would hatch or not I cannot j 
say, but I certainly never took an egg which 
was in the least bit addled. I saw no evidence 
of their ever laying over one egg at a time 
and the birds pick but one bare spot on their 
breasts. 
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Birds of N.E. co'.st of Labrador 
by Henry B. Bigelow. 
5- Uria troile. Murre.— We found the Murres fairly common to Ham- 
1 ton Inlet, north of which we saw very few. A large colony was reported 
to us, however, at Eclipse Harbor. Probably no bird has suffered more 
from the depredations of the eggers than this, which is in merely a rem¬ 
nant of its former numbers. 
Auk, XIX, Jan., 1902, p.26. 
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£***£$£* - Auk, XIX, April., 1902, pp. 
Birds of Toronto, Ontario. 
By James K.Fleming. 
Pt.I, Water Birds. 
Hypothetical List. 
AuK, XXIII, Oct., 1903, p.452. 
2. Uria troile. Murre. — A specimen recorded by me is an error . 5 
A careful examination of the printed records prove they are based on hear¬ 
say evidence, and as far as I know no specimens exist from any where on 
the Great Lakes. -, C^r. i C— 
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