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Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii. Fairly common. 



Least Tern Sterna antillarum. Rare. 



Cory Shearwater Puffinus borealis. Rare. 



Herring Gull Larus argentatus. Rare. 



Laughing Gull Lams atricitta. Rare. 



Meadow Lark Sturnella magna. Few (6). 



Yellow Warbler Dendroica cestiva cestiva. One pair. 



Upland Plover Bartramia longicanda. 



Semipalmate Sandpiper Ereunetes pusillus. Very common. 



Little Green Heron Butorides virescens. 



Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria inter pres morinella. Two. 



Red-wing Blackbird Agelaius phosniceus. Common. 



Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia. 



Least Sandpiper Pisobia minutilla. 



Killdeer Oxyechus vocifents. 



Yellow legs Totanus sp.? Rare. 



Woodcock Pliilohela minor. 1 One. 



Virginia Rail Rallns. virginianus. 



Curlew Numenius sp.? 



Eve Swallow? 



Ringneck Plover Aegialitis semipalmata (Semipalmate Plover). 



Other Vertebrates. 



Bujo jowleri Common toad. 4 examples. 



(Identified by Miss Doris M. Cochran, U. S. National Museum.) 



Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis Common garter snake. 6 examples. 



(Identified by Miss Doris M. Cochran, U. S. National Museum.) 



Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis (Fischer) . Field mouse. One 



example taken in one of the traps left on the island. Specimen 



preserved by the kindness of the State caretaker on Penikese; 



identified by F. E. Wood. 



1 Reported by D. B. Young. 



