' Birds -within Ten Miles of Foir ■ 
de Monts, Can, Oomeau & Merrian 
144. Alle nigricans. Dovekie. —Very abundant in flocks during 
some winters, arriving early in December and remaining till some time in 
February. During other winters it is rare or does not occur at all. 
Bull N.O.O. 7,Ooti 1882, p,24: 
Birds of N.E. coast of Labrador 
by Henry B. Bigelow. 
8. Alle alle. Dovekie; Bull Bird. — Reported as very common in 
winter. I observed only one, off Cape Harrison, on September 18. 
Auk, XIX, Jan., 1902, p.26. 
Ontario Bird Notes. - A Dovekie (Alle alle > was shot Nov. 18, 1901, by 
II. Macdonald, a fisherman, two miles out in the lake from Toronto, On¬ 
tario. Mr. John Maughn, a taxidermist, now has it in his possession. I 
was present when he opened the stomach, which was empty except for a 
few small fish bones. It was a female and evidently a young bird, as there 
was no white on the secondaries and the back was slaty instead of a black. 
(<J. A ' 77$ vJzou* . 
Auk. XIX Jan., 10 j% p. 1 
Birds of Toronto, Ontario. 
By James K.Fleming. 
Ft.I, 7/ater Birds. 
Auli, XXIII, Oct., 1905, p.44I. 
9. Alle alle. Dovekie.— One record, a female taken November 
18, 1901, 3 in collection of Mr. John Maughan, Jr. 
3 Auk, XIX 1902 , 94 . 
The Dovekie in Maine in Summer.— On July 15, 1911, while Mr. G. 
Gilbert Pearson and the writer were taking passage, with a local fisherman, 
from Machias Seal Island, which is about twelve miles south from Cutler, 
Maine, when about half way between the Seal Island and Cross Island, 
Me., or about six miles from either point, we came upon a pair of Dovekies 
{Alle alle) swimming in close company. We found them in one of the 
eddies of the numerous tide rips, caused by the tidal currents of the Bay 
of Fundy. 
They proved to be a male and female in an interesting stage of plumage. 
The head, neck, underparts, interscapular region, and tertials of the male 
were of the nuptial plumage, the neck entirely around being uniformly 
velvety, sooty brown. The rump and tail were of the winter plumage, 
faded grayish, and worn. The wings were much worn, some of the pri¬ 
maries with bare shafts for half their length. 
The female was similar, except that the winter plumage remained over 
the entire back behind (caudad) the scapular region; the rectrices had been 
renewed. The throat and sides of the neck, at the place of the winter 
half-collar of white, were well sprinkled with white. 
Though two leading manuals make no distinction between the sexes, 
this last feature had the appearance of a sex character, and the female was 
noticeably smaller than the male. 
Though the birds were in fair bodily condition and had not been crippled 
they showed no indication of breeding, and it is doubtful if they could have 
flown. 
I am told by Capt. Merton Tolman, until recently keeper of Matinieus 
Rock light station, a man whose word in such a matter is not to be doubted, 
that during the summer of 1910, one of these birds was frequently seen near 
Matinieus Rock. 
So far as known to me, these are the only instances recorded, of the 
verified occurrence of the bird in summer south of Newfoundland. {Cf. 
Townsend and Allen, Proc. Boston Soc. N. H., XXXIII, p. 309 .)—Arthur 
H. Norton, Portland, Me. 
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