Capture of the Sea Dove 150 Miles from the Sea: — On Novem¬ 
ber 8th, 1881, a Sea Dove ( Alle nigricans ), was shot in the Hudson 
River, at Lansingburg, by Alfred Benjamin of that village. The bird 
was mounted by Williajn Gibson of the same place, and is in his col¬ 
lection. — Austin F. Park, Troy , N. MN.O.O, 7 , Jan,1882, p,6/ 
Bird Notes from Long Id. Wm. Dutcher 
14. Alle nigricans Link. Sea Dove ; Dovekie. — Decem¬ 
ber 7, 1882, Mr. C. A. Blydenburgh, first assistant keeper of 
Fire Island Light, sent me a female of this species, which he 
found dead on the beach. Ten days later he sent me another, and 
wrote as follows: “I found one Sea Dove which I will send you 
with this. The men at the Life Saving Station had three Sea 
Doves before I got one. One of the men from the next station 
east told me they found one this winter. That makes six picked 
up along here.” In answer to an inquiry, Mr. L. S. hostel, of 
New York City, wrote me as follows: “My Long Island 
information concerning 752, Alle nigricans , is as follow's: 
The specimen in my cabinet ‘was caught on my patrol, in my 
midnight watch, the night of the 23d of December, 1881. June 
Bishop, Life Saving Station, oil' Centre Moriches, L. I.’ One 
was found dead in the meshes of a net near the same locality, 
November, 1SS2. One was brought on the cars of the Long 
Island railroad at Bayport by a gunner, Novembei, 1SS2, having 
been shot in a pool.’ ” Auki j Jan< _ 1884< p j 
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Alle alle. Two little Auks were found by the same member 
of the Amagansett Life-saving crew referred to above, while 
patrolling the beach on the evening of December 14 , 1901 . He 
wrote me that he had so obtained them and added: “The sea 
was running very high and I suppose that they where washed in 
on the beach.” 
Auk, XX, Jan., 1008 . p. 6“/- 
The Dovekie (Alle alle) on Long Island, N. Y— January 15, 1903, Mr. 
George W. Mott of Westminster Kennel Club brought in a Dovekie to 
be mounted. I inquired where he procured it, and he informed me that 
it had been given him by a boy who found it the morning previous, 
lying in the road midway between the steamboat dock and Babylon 
Village. It evidently had struck either the electric light or telephone 
wires, as the neck and breast were much bruised. The bird was found 
in a road crossing meadows near Great South Bay, and at least three 
and one half miles from the ocean. Both plumage and body were in 
good condition.-H e^M^B^rtis $$$>»*..I 
