Bird Notes from Long Id. Wm.Dutoher 
8. Lomvia arra bruennichi ( Sck.) Ridgw. Brunnich’s Guillemot- 
—Between January 8 and March 24, 1884, I obtained twelve specimens 
and noted about thirty additional individuals of this species from the 
south side of Long Island. A large majority of the specimens obtained 
were either found dead on the beach, generally frozen, or else so weak 
from hunger that they were easily captured by hand and died within a few 
hours. The only exception to the above was two that were shot by a 
gunner at Rockaway, who had them come to his Duck decoys. Dr. C. 
Hart Merriam mentions the same circumstance of starvation in connec¬ 
tion with the Foolish Guillemot in his ‘List of Birds ascertained to occur 
within ten miles from Point de Monts, Province of Quebec, Canada.’* 
“They were all in very poor flesh, some being little more than animated 
skeletons, and a great many died and were washed ashore.” 
The notes accompanying the specimens indicate that this species is 
a very uncommon winter visitor to the western end of Long Island, and 
an irregular winter visitor to the extreme eastern portion of the Island. 
From a correspondent at Ditch Plain, which is very near the eastern 
extremity of the Island, I get the following note : “The bird sent was 
picked up dead on the beach after an easterly storm. At such times we 
have quite often found them, and have also seen them alive. I think 
they are driven on our shore by severe northeast gales, as after such 
storms is about the only time we find them.” Another correspondent, 
from Shinnecock Bay, which is about thirty miles west of Ditch Plain, 
writes : “They are rather a rare bird on this coast, but during the winter 
in severe storms you will see one occasionally.” A correspondent from 
Smith’s Point, which is about midway between New York City and Mon- 
tank Point, says, “Do not see them every winter. They appear to be a 
very dumb bird. I picked this one up on the beach alive, and was going 
to send it to you that way, but it died before I could do so. The Captain 
of our Station says ‘to the best of his knowledge he has never seen one 
before.’ He has been in the Life-Saving Service twelve years.” At South 
Oyster Bay and Rockaway, which are but a few miles from the western 
end of the Island, the gunners and Life-Saving men had never seen them 
before, and at the former place the single one shot was considered so rare 
that it was preserved and mounted. Atlk, 2 , Jan. , 1886. p, 3V'3^. 
* Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, Vol. VII, p. 242. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Auk, XII, April, 1895, P./77- 
Briinnich’s Murre in Oneida County, N. Y.—The first week of Decem¬ 
ber last, a specimen of Brunnich’s Murre (Uria lomvia') was caught alive, 
a few miles south of this place, by a school girl, on the road between 
Lime Kiln Creek and Black River Canal. The bird was kept in confine¬ 
ment for a couple of days, when it died. It was offered meat, but refused 
to eat. As near as I can ascertain the bird was captured December 5, 
1894. 
Late in December I obtained possession of another specimen of this 
same species. This one was captured alive by a farmer, about December 
15, a few miles south of where the other was caught. It lived but two 
days in confinement. The stomachs of both birds were empty. Mr. 
Egbert Bagg informs me that a specimen of this same Murre was caught 
alive at Utica, December 24. This is the first record of Uria lomvia from 
Oneida County. — William S. Johnson, Boonvjlle, N T. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Auk, XII, July, 1895, P 
Brunnich’s Murre near Johnstown, New York.— I recently examined a 
specimen of Brunnich’s Murre ( Uria lomvia ), that was taken about thirty 
miles north of this place. The bird seemed somewhat exhausted, and was 
captured alive.— Donald Fraser, Johnstown, N. T. 
