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New Haven, a flock of between thirty and forty, probably driven 

 from their course by a southeast gale (L. B. B.) ; fall, 1899 ( ?), 

 Old Park Pond, Winsted,^ one seen ; Sept. 6, 1909, Hammonasset 

 Marshes, Clinton, one young shot (C. R. Hooker, in coll. of L. 

 B. B.). Dr. Merriam records it as a rare visitor, noting but two 

 specimens, one taken near Goose Island by Capt. Brooks (about 

 1864), another shot late in August at Milford.^ 



Family RYNCHOPID^. Skimmers. 



Rynchops nigra Linnaeus. Black Skimmer. 



One was taken near the Yale boat-house in New Haven Har- 

 bor about June 16, 1883, and was identified, June 18, by L. B. B. 

 Judge John N. Clark wrote J. H. S., Nov. 8, 1894: "A Black 

 Skimmer was killed here (Saybrook) a few days ago." 



Order TUBINARES. Tube-nosed Swimmers. 



Family PROCELLARHDyE. Fulmars, Shearwaters, and Petrels. 



Subfamily Fulmarin.^. Fulmars. 



Fulmarus glacialis glacialis (Linnaeus). Fulmar. 



A single bird of this species was shot by A. H. V. at the Thim- 

 ble Islands, Stony Creek, Oct. 10, 1909, and brought to L. C. S. 

 in the flesh. It is now in the collection of L, C. S. This is the 

 only record for Connecticut, except the doubtful reference in 

 Linsley's list, of which Merriam does not consider he had sufficient 

 proof.^ 



Subfamily Puffinin^. Shearwaters and Petrels. 



Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly). Greater Shearwater. 



According to Merriam (1876), "not rare in winter off the 

 coast, but generally keeps outside the Sound." Linsley recorded 

 it as common about Stonington. Merriam further notes that " in 

 the Museum of Wesleyan University at Middletown is the head of 

 a bird of this species which is said to have been killed at Granby, 

 Conn."* 



1 Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 290. 



'Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 135. 



•Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 146. 



* Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 136. 



