NOTES CONCERNING CERTAIN BIRDS OF LONG 
ISLAND, NEW YORK. 
BY WILLIAM C. BRAISLIN, M. D. 
The species here referred to have recently been met with as 
birds of Long Island. Most are recorded because of their rarity. 
One, the Hermit Thrush, is herewith for the first time definitely 
announced as a breeding species on Long Island. The evidence 
is based on the capture of a single specimen of an immature bird 
just out of the nest, with but little power of flight, at Lake Ronkon- 
koma. Lake Ronkonkoma lies nearly at the geographical center 
of Long Island, several miles from the sea. The temperature 
there is, however, tempered by its influence, both in summer and 
winter, as the thermometer records, carefully made for a series of 
years by a medical friend who lives near there, show. The Hermit 
Thrush is said to breed regularly on Cape Cod. The present record 
brings its coastal nesting range somewhat further south. Further 
investigation will probably show that the Hermit Thrush is, though 
rare, a regular summer resident on Long Island. 
Alle alle. Little Auic or Dovekie. — Another specimen 
(several have been previously recorded by me in ‘The Auk’) was 
recently sent from Montauk by Mr. Baker. It was secured on 
Hither Plain Dec. 31 , 1906 . It was driven on the beach and 
there found by the patrolmen of the Life-saving Service. Mr. 
Baker wrote me that it came ashore during an unusually heavy 
southerly storm. It bore marks of having received serious injury 
in the surf. There were areas of extravasated blood beneath the 
skin of both the tj^ ej ie^.^,^ stomach contained no 
