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



Order LONGIPENNES. Long-winged Swimmers. 

 Family STERCORARIID^. Skuas and Jaegers. 

 Stercorarius parasiticus (Linn^us). Parasitic (or Richard- 

 son's) Jaeger. . . . „-^ 

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



Linsley notes it from Bridgeport. .tic. 



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 Wrn^ F. Lane a 

 beautiful adult specimen of this Larine plunderer, ^vhich he shot 

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



Family LARID^. Gulls and Terns. 

 Subfamily Larine. Gulls. 



Rissa tridactyla tridactyla (Linn^us). Kittiwake. 



A very rare winter visitant on the coast. 



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

 rs T H^^ 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. n, 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. ,■ u .. 



The onlv 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.^ 



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- 

 SO. and 0., vi, 4. P- 3i- 

 » AuA, xii, I, p. 76. 



