20 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Order LONGIPENNES. Long-winged Swimmers. 

 Family STERCORARIIDJE. Skuas and Jaegers. 



Stercorarius parasiticus (Linnaeus). Parasitic (or Richard- 

 son's) Jaeger. 



Merriam refers to this species as a " rare winter visitor." 1 

 Linsley notes it from Bridgeport. 



Taken at Portland, fall of 1875 (J. H. S.) ; at Noank, Sept. 

 10, 1903 (Dr. C. B. Graves, in coll. of J. H. S.). 



Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot. Long-tailed Jaeger. 



The only record of this species appears in Merriam's Birds of 

 Connecticut, p. 131. "I have just received from Wm. F. Lane, a 

 beautiful adult specimen of this Larine plunderer, which he shot 

 on the Community Lake at Wallingford, Conn., Aug. 30th, 1873." 



Family LARIDiE. Gulls and Terns. 

 Subfamily Larine. Gulls. 



Rissa tridactyla tridactyla (Linnaeus). Kittiwake. 



A very rare winter visitant on the coast. 



April 2, 1880, large numbers in the Thames River, Norwich 

 (S. T. H.) ; 2 Nov. 15, 1883, one brought to the Peabody Museum 

 and seen in the flesh by L. B. B. ; Dec. 3, 1884, one seen alive at 

 West Haven by L. B. B.; Dec. II, 1886, and March 19, 1887, 

 seen at New Haven by L. B. W. ; Jan. 21, 1895, a young male 

 taken at Stamford (in coll. of Mr. Schaler). 



Larus leucopterus Faber. Iceland Gull. 



The only record for Connecticut is a young male which was 

 shot by a fisherman between Rye and Stamford, March 3, 1894, 

 and is now in the collection of L. H. Porter. 3 



Larus kumlieni Brewster. Kumlien's Gull. 

 A young female in the collection of Mr. Porter was shot in 

 Stamford Harbor, Feb. 16, 1894. 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 131. 

 *0. and O., vi, 4, p. 31. 

 » Auk y xii, 1, p. 76. 



