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FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LONGIPENNES. 



LARIDAE. 



X. H. — Common migrant and Avinter resident; less common 

 summer A-isitor coastwise. 



Vt. — Uncommon migrant and rare summer resident (Lake 

 Champlain). 



^NIass. — Common migrant and winter resident, less common 

 summer A-isitor coastwise; not now known to breed (nested at 

 Wepecket Id., 1882, Mackay). 



R. I. — Common migrant and winter resident, mainly coast- 

 wise; a few non-breeding birds summer. Sept. 10-May 22; 

 summer. 



Coxx. — Common migrant and winter resident, mainly coast- 

 wise; a few non-breeding birds summer. Oct.-May; summer. 



26. Larus delaw'arexsis Ord. 



Ring-billed gull. 

 Ord, Guthrie's Geogr., hist., and commercial grammar, 2d 

 Amer. ed., 1815, vol. 2, p. 319. "ox the Delaw^vre below 

 Philadelphia." Chapman, Handb. birds east. Xo. Amer., 



1895, p. 73. 



Larus zonorhijnchus Richardson. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 



1844, vol. 7, p. 152, pi. 446. 

 Seacoasts; nests on the ground. 



]\Ie., X. H. — Uncommon migrant and rare winter resident 

 coastwise. Mar.-April; Oct.-Xov. (winter). 



Mass. — Uncommon migrant coastwise. Spring; July 17- 



Oct. 30. 



R. I. — Uncommon migrant and winter resident. Xov.-April. 

 Coxx. — Uncommon migrant and winter resident. 



