Auk, XII, Oct. , 1895, p. 3S 7 
Brunnich’s Murre in Michigan. — On the morning of December 13, 
1894, a Brunnich’s Murre (Uria lomvia'), in dying condition, was picked 
up on the Flat River, a small stream near the city of Greenville, Michigan. 
It came into the hands of Mr. Percy Selous, a naturalist and taxidermist 
of that place, who subsequently sent it to me for inspection, and eventually 
presented the specimen, well mounted, to the State Agricultural College. 
Mr. Selous writes me that the bird, an immature male, was greatly 
emaciated, and was dead, though not really cold when he obtained it, 
probably not more than an hour or two after its capture. This, I believe, 
is the first actual record of the occurrence of this species in Michigan, 
and is of special interest as rendering more probable the several more or 
less reliable reports of capture of other members of the family within the. 
State. — Walter B. Barrows, Agriculttiral College , Mich. 
During the occurrence of the heavy gale which prevailed along the coast 
about the middle of December, 1896, great numbers of Brunnich’s Murres 
were seen and shot at different points along the Delaware River. On the 
15th a boy shot one from the shore at Edgewater Park, the skin of which 
was preserved. The next morning I witnessed several flocks of fifteen 01- 
twenty birds each flying up the river, and secured two specimens. During 
the afternoon they returned in scattered flocks numbering about three 
hundred. A flock flew over my boat while crossing the river, low enough 
to have been struck with an oar. Those which remained about the river 
during the day to feed, were quite tame, and could be easily approached 
without alarm. One was also shot further down the river at Palmyra, and 
I was informed, several above Burlington.—J. Harris Reed, Beverly , 
N.J. 
