Birds of the Adirondack Region 
C.H.Merriaxa. 
in g the migrations — 
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Ball, N, 0.0. Q.Oot, 1,881, p.235 
Some Birds of Unusual Occurrence in Orleans County, N. Y. — During - 
the past week the writer has accomplished a casual reading of a complete 
file of ‘The Auk’, from Vol. I, No. i to date, and finds that during the 
entire fifteen years of its publication it has contained only two items 
which pertain to the ornithology of this county, and those were of but a 
paragraph each. Our county has not, however, been so free from rare 
avian visitors as this sparsity of record would seem to indicate. On the 
contrary, there have been many occurrences well worthy of mention, 
although it does seem that no one has taken the pains to have them prop¬ 
erly recorded. Permit me now to make mention of some of the most 
interesting of these, as follows : — 
Colymbus holboelli. Holboell’s Grebe. — A somewhat ancient 
record, dating back to May i, 1873, on which day, Mr. David Bruce of 
Brockport secured a specimen near Murray. This bird was somewhat 
above the ordinary in size, measuring twenty-one inches in length. 
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