10 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 



"? Lnrnx irlacialis Benicken, (not MacKJll). Glancvs and Laroides glacialis Bruch, 

 1853 and 1855. Leucvs arcticuf: Bonap. 1856, (not Macgill.) excl. syn." (Cones.) 



Spec. Char. Adnlf. Bill flesh color at base, blackish on terminal third. Entire 

 plumage pure white, shafts of feathers straw-yellow. Feet light flesh-color. Young. 

 Head, neck and upper parts mottled light reddish brown, appearing on the latter as 

 irregular patches, and on the rump as more or less obsolete transverse bars. Under 

 parts a nearly uniform very light reddish brown, the under tail-coverts transversely 

 barred with white. Wings and tail pure white. 



Lengtii 27.50, extent 60, wing 17.75, bill above-2.46, gape 3.20. Tarsus 3.40, middle 

 toe and claw 3.50. (Coues.) 



Hah. Arctic America. A straggler was shot in Washington County, N. 

 Y., in winter, and presented to Smithsonian Institute by Mr. P. Reid. 



A specimen in perfect plumage was shot at the Farallone Islands, last year, 

 by Mr. Tasker, the light-keeper, who presented it to Mr. Gruber. He says they 

 are not rare visitors there in winter. This specimen agrees exactly with the 

 description excei)t in being a little smaller, (wing 1G.75, bill along gape 3.) 1 

 have added descriptions of this and other birds not given in the Pac. R. R. Re- 

 ports. It may have been the " L. ehurneus ? " mentioned by Newberry, Pac. 

 R. R. Rep. VI, ii, 105, as killed on Des Chutes R. Or. 1855, but lost. I have 

 seen many immature specimens about San Francisco Bay the jjast winter. 



57 Larus brach.yrhynchus Richardson — Short-billed Gull. 



^= L. Suckleyi and Rissa septenirioiialis Lawrence, Birds ofN.A. 848, 854, but not 

 L. brachyrhjinchus of Gould nor of most American authors, teste Coues, Proc. Phil. 

 Acad. Nat. Sc. 1862. 



Mr. Lorquin has a young specimen shot in this bay, probably in the cold 

 season. This is the most southerly occurrence both of this and the next. 



58 RissA KoTZEBUEi Bonaparte — Kotzebue's Kittiwake — (=" R. hreviros- 

 trts " ISiwrence, not of Brandt, teste Coues 1. c. supra.) A specimen in nearly 

 perfect plumage is in Mr. Lorquin's collection, shot in this bay. As Mr. Law- 

 rence only quoted Bruch 's description which was " from the type," the error 

 should be charged to Bruch, if it is one. 



59 Thalasseds elegans Garabel — Elegant Tern— The first specimens I have 

 seen from this State were shot by Mr. Lorquin in S. F. Bay, and are in fine 

 plumage. 



60 OcEANODROMA FURCATA Gmeliu, (Bonap.) — Fork-tailed Petrel — Mr. 

 Lorquin presented a specimen to the State Museum, which he says he shot at 

 San Pedro, Cal. 1 never saw it on our coast, but it was before obtained on 

 the coast of Oregon. 



Gl Cymochorea homochroa Coues — Black Petrel — Proc. Phila. Acad., 

 Mch., 18G4, 77 — " T/ialassidroma melania Bonap.," Lawrence, P. R. R. Rep., 

 IX, 1858, 830, and Bds. of N. A., plate. Farallone Is., June, 1863, Gruber. 

 There is a possibility that this may be the immature young of Bonaparte's 

 species, obtained off " California" coast by Delattre, and at Cape St. Lucas by 

 Xantus. Baird, Cassin and Lawrence were so certain of their identity as to 

 figure the Farallone specimen as " melania" after comparison with one admitted 

 to be that species by Coues, and the differences the latter indicates are all such 

 as belong to the young. The evident growth of bill, feet, etc., in birds of this 



