Auk. XII, July, 1395, P. 3/Z- 
Some Rare Birds of Recent Occurrence near Buffalo, N. Y. — Uria lomvia. 
Brunnicii’s Murre. — Four stragglers of this species were seen here last 
fall; two of which were captured. One was shot near Irving on or about 
December i, 1894, by ‘Jake’ Koch, a sportsman of local fame, who had it 
mounted and placed in the rooms of the Acacia Club in this city. The 
second was shot in Buffalo harbor by a gunner named Snyder who says 
that it is one of three that were flying past him at the time. This latter 
is now in my collection. Both were young birds which probably strayed 
from the coast via the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. 
Mcllwraith recorded in his ‘Birds of Ontario’ (p. 38) the capture of 
nearly fifty of these birds in various parts of the Province late in the fall 
of 1893, and it would be interesting to know if there were any considerable 
numbers of stragglers last fall. A short time ago Mr. J. L. Davidson of 
Lockport informed me that a correspondent of his shot four strange look¬ 
ing Ducks in Jefferson County which possibly were of this species. And 
recently ‘ Forest and Stream’ was asked to identify a bird shot in the in¬ 
terior of New York State that from the description was evidently a Murre. 
Murres in Western Sew York. — Writing from Geneva, N. Y., Mr. L. 
Clark states that a specimen of Uria lomvia was killed on Seneca Lake, 
December 23, 1895, a second in May, 1896, and a third on December 26, 
1896. He also reports that J. S. Baker, a taxidermist at Geneva, has had 
several specimens of the same species brought him by hunters for mount¬ 
ing and that numbers had been seen on the lake during the winter of 
1896. Previous to December 1895^ the bird was not known to occur.— 
Frank M. Chapman, American Museum of Natural History, New York 
City. 
Some New Recorad from Central New York.- — Since April, 1894, 
when I recorded in ‘ The Auk ’ eight new species for ‘ Oneida County 
and its Immediate Vicinity,’ I have been able to add four new records, 
making the total number of species and subspecies recorded from our 
territory 243.' These four records are as follows, viz. : 
Uria lomvia. — In Christmas week, 1894, the mounted letter carrier on 
the road between Utica and New Hartford captured one of these birds 
alive, finding it almost helpless in the road just outside of the city. It 
was kept alive for several days and after its death was mounted and 
preserved. 
Mr. \Y. S. Johnson of Boonville has recorded two other specimens of 
this species taken the same month in the northern part of this county 
(Auk, Vol. XII, p. 177 ). 
Uria lomvia. Brunnich’s Murre. — Mr. F. A. Macomber of Murray 
has a mounted specimen in winter plumage which was brought to him in 
the first half of March, 1897, having been taken alive by hand, in a 
famished condition, on the ice of Sandy Creek. My collection contains 
the mounted head of another individual which was picked up dead from 
the Lake Ontario shore in the town of Kendall, by Mr. Harry Burnett. 
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Auk, XVI, ApTil, 1899, p p.ij3-6. 
