14 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LONGIPENNES. 



LARIDAE. 



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

 summer visitor coastwise. 



Vt. — Uncommon migrant and rare summer resident (Lake 

 Champlain). 



Mass. — Common migrant and winter resident, less common 

 summer visitor 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. 



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

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



26. Larus delawarensis Orel. 



Ring-billed gull. 



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

 Amer. ed., 1815, vol. 2, p. 319. "ox the Delaware below 

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

 1895, p. 73. 



Larus zonorkynchus Richardson. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 

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



Seacoasts; nests on the ground. 



Me., 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. 



Conn. — Uncommon migrant and winter resident. 



